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.
• But that is not to say that the culpable always bear the cost alone.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 July 2018
• Biden is, of course, fully culpable as the man with whom the buck stops.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
• The Mariners bullpen, which has been culpable in many of the blowout games this season, couldn’t slow the damage.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
• 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
• The judge said he was not convinced that Mr. Spanier was as culpable as the other two.
  — Jon Hurdle and Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• There is this question about the extent to which the system is culpable.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
• Aaron Ramsey and Wilshere were both culpable in the first 15 minutes.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• Scott vowed to punish anyone found culpable in the deaths.
  — CBS News, 14 Sep. 2017
• The defense maintains that Castile was high at the time of the incident and was therefore culpable in his death.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 7 June 2017
• 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
• But the court did not say there had been widespread rigging or that the president was culpable.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Neither could sustain him, and the spirits were partly culpable in his many dark sides.
  — John Henry, star-telegram.com, 9 May 2017
• 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
• Cosmetic chemist Javon Ford has a theory that titanium oxide, rather than zinc, is most likely to be culpable for the egregious white cast.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 7 July 2024
• By extension, then, those expressing concern about Trump’s politics were culpable for the shooting — a link made more explicit by some in Trump’s orbit.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024