How to use culprit in a sentence

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• The revelation of the culprits' identities was cathartic for the populace.From the entry revelation
• The culprit will be smoked out by the end of the day.From the entry smoke out
• The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.From the entry hang
• A faulty connection proved to be the culprit.From the entry prove
• He wagged an admonitory finger at the culprit.From the entry admonitory
• They used counternarcoterrorism to catch the culprits.From the entry counternarcoterrorism
• The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.From the entry nameless
• The district attorney said, "No comment," when the reporter asked if he knew the identity of the murder suspect, for fear that the culprit might be a flight risk.From the entry no comment
• So we’re no nearer to finding a culprit?” is what keeps the schtick from ever growing stale.2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club. From the entry line of questioning
• Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in.2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian. From the entry clean out
• Why not call out capitalism as a culprit by renaming the Anthropocene the Capitalocene?2020, Vincent Ialenti, Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now, MIT Press, page 17. From the entry Oliganthropocene
• The mighty gust of wind that followed the giant’s landing was the culprit.2018, J.H. Hutchins, “The Finale”, in Dhampir (Avalon; 1), ASIN B07DN2WGBS. From the entry plateskirt
• Now I just need to figure out who the culprit is.”2015, Becky Lower, The Cotillion Ball Saga, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry fig
• At the next Prime Ministers Questions they stood watch, and caught the culprit in the act.2008 August 31, Melissa Kite, “Dispatch Box vandal caught in the act and culprit is Prime Minister Gordon Brown”, in The Daily Telegraph…. From the entry dispatch box
• I looked behind me; saw a large duffel bag, the culprit.2005, John Dempsey, Matchbook, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry Thai-stick
• The mythical clan belief is the only culprit of the misery in Somalia.1998 November 1, Abdiwali M Ahmed, “Would it be a sin...”, in soc.culture.somalia (Usenet). From the entry somalism
• Cadres in Xiangyang Dian commune in Pingyu county ordered the culprits to be dressed in mourning.1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117. From the entry Pingyu
• To unsheet the ghost, to identify the culprit, let's gather more clues.1989, Peter Kreeft, Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing. From the entry unsheet
• "But, Doctor, aren't we to do anything to discover the culprits?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry call to account
• The statue was never traced, nor the culprits tracked down.2020 November 4, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Neyland (November 2010)”, in Rail, page 27. From the entry re-use
• In their escape, the culprits dented the wing mirror of a mobility car used to transport youngest daughter Klara, seven.2020 August 3, Jemma Carr, “Don't mess with Macey! Hero Staffordshire bull terrier chases off four machete-wielding burglars after gang…. From the entry Klara
• A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.2018 October 15, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for…. From the entry predator
• Failure to perform duties opened the culprit to charges of ‘felony’ (felonia), providing grounds for the king to escheat the fief.2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 329. From the entry escheat
• “I can’t imagine anyone believes in Communist culprits instead of a contract job commissioned on behalf of the swastika.”2011, Rudolph Herzog, translated by Jefferson Chase, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany, Brooklyn: Melville House, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry swastika
• A second time got the culprit 5 days.2009, Chester A. Wright, Black Men and Blue Water, page 222. From the entry cake and wine
• I suspected most of the culprits to be transvestites.2005, Jeff Metzger, Cubicle Cowboy, page 168. From the entry grabbing
• The culprit is the male cedar, which bears miniscule golden pine cones that release pollen when they pop open.1998, Diane Capito, Mark Willis, San Antonio on Foot. From the entry smoke
• The position of the culprit nut would probably have been aggravated by using control augmentation or “hamfisting” the stick.1981 March, Bruce P. Eaton, “Expect the unexpected”, in Dale E. Smith, editor, Approach: The Naval Aviation Safety Review, volume 26…. From the entry hamfist
• So whereas attempts to single out a dino killer may have failed, for now, they do point to a conspiracy of culprits.2019 February 21, Howard Lee, “The Real Dino Killer: A One–Two Punch”, in Scientific American. From the entry dino
• One culprit: the polar vortex, a giant mass of cold air normally contained above the North Pole by strong bands of circulating winds.2019 January 22, Richard A. Oppel Jr, “Had Enough of Snow? Try Frost Quakes, Waterspouts and Bitter Cold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry polar vortex
• What made the Sixth Extinction different from the previous five ancient epoch-ending planetary die-offs was that this time the culprit was humankind.2018, Brian Andrews, Reset: A Thriller, Thomas & Mercer, page 132. From the entry hypervolcanic
• This cartellike partnership's specious sales pitch was that doctors were the culprits behind inflation, driven to avaricious behavior by an evil fee-for-service system.2014 January 21, Robert W. Geist, “Counterpoint: The high cost of 'free' medical care”, in StarTribune. From the entry cartellike
• In von Hügel's estimation the real culprit that distorts “quiet” into Quietism, is any tendency to extreme dualism, particularly between body and soul.2009, Elaine A. Heath, Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer, page 75. From the entry quietism
• The white population claimed that an escaped panther from a travelling circus was the culprit; others thought that a Yowie was responsible.1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Macquarie PEN Anthology of…. From the entry yowie
• Today, DDT as the greatest culprit, and one which has brought immense profit to the pesticide producing industry, has been spread worldwide.1965, Nature Study, volumes 19–23, Morehead, Ky.: American Nature Study Society, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry omnicide
• Emotional tension is the dangerous culprit.1959, Lester R. Bittel, What Every Supervisor Should Know, New York, N.Y. […]: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 412. From the entry tenigue
• And that’s why perhaps the greatest culprit of our era of misinformation may be, more than any one particular misinformer, the era-defining rise in social polarization.2021 May 7, Max Fisher, “‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry misinformation

Meaning of culprit

1. noun The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
2. noun A prisoner accused but not yet tried.

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Questions about culprit in a sentence

How do you use culprit in a sentence?

Culprit is used as a noun. For example: “I have tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit; it should work now.”

What is a short sentence with culprit?

“Emotional tension is the dangerous culprit.”

What does culprit mean?

Culprit means the person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.