How to Use culpable in a Sentence

culpable

adjective

• They held her culpable for the accident.
• He's more culpable than the others because he's old enough to know better.
• Biden is, of course, fully culpable as the man with whom the buck stops.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
• Who’s culpable, who’s to pay, and who’s to get paid (other than the trial lawyers, of course)?
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 24 June 2021
• There is this question about the extent to which the system is culpable.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
• What process is there to make sure that leaders are culpable for their actions?
  — Bran Ferren, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2019
• Murray and his agent, Erik Burkhardt, are culpable, too.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2022
• But shielding the culpable and accepting the bare minimum is not the way to go.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Humphrey and safety Chuck Clark have been culpable in recent weeks.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• Chanel is in over her head, inexperienced in this kind of work, but culpable at the same time.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Ruler was at the center of one of the most high-profile and egregious cases where rap lyrics were used to paint a defendant as culpable.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2022
• Here the Biden administration should bear in mind the mood and tenor of Russian life and of the many millions of Russians who are not culpable for the war.
  — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2022
• He was later found culpable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the Goldman family.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• To follow the defense’s logic, if Floyd was somehow culpable in his own death, so were the bystanders.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2021
• Because the truth is the children always feel culpable.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• Whatever the reason — who knows, maybe the Celtics are somehow culpable — we’ve been robbed.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• Chauvin is the most culpable of the four defendants charged in Floyd’s death, all of whom were police officers at the time but have since been fired.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
• Grossberg appeared to be among those culpable for the scandal.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• If there was a lab leak, just one, or a few, scientists are culpable of an accident.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
• Lue felt his team’s offense was more culpable for the loss than the defense, and the lack of anyone outside of George and Leonard to leave a mark as a scorer was a main reason.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• His firm has filed one lawsuit, which names Merced County and the state of California as culpable, and said more are planned.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• While each party blames the other, both sides are not equally culpable.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• But, in Henning’s view, Dunn and her fellow-jurors were not culpable.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2024
• Gamache must find who was behind the attack and whether that person is also culpable in a killing that happens soon after.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• The former sprinter was convicted of culpable homicide in 2014 and sentenced to five years in prison.
  — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023
• While the federal government and the fed are culpable, Covid-19 is the unknown variable.
  — Mike Patton, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• Kochai’s fiction speaks to the human need to make sense of overwhelming violence—who survives it and who doesn’t; who is held culpable and who isn’t.
  — Omar El Akkad, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2022
• Who would be more likely to hold all those culpable accountable: Donald Trump or Joe Biden?
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
• Pino agrees that the fashion industry and its consumers are culpable.
  — Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
• Over the next few years, Pistorius was put on trial for Steenkamp’s murder, at first being found guilty of culpable homicide, akin to manslaughter, in 2014.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024