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.
• Well, almost no one who has been presented with receipts has copped to being culpable.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• The state prosecutor argued that both men were equally culpable.
  — Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Oct. 2017
• But whether both parties were equally culpable proved to be a more elusive question—one that remains shrouded in mystery to the present day.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2017
• If Clinton had been charged, Obama’s culpable involvement would have been patent.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• These men are only part of the problem; the organizations that protect them are equally culpable (see first news item below).
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2018
• Those who enable and normalize his behavior are every bit as culpable as the president himself.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
• Jackson's defenders not doubt will insist that the front office is culpable to a large degree, that all of the decisions were not Jackson's.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• Raja, 40, faces two charges: manslaughter by culpable negligence while armed, and attempted first-degree murder with a firearm.
  — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Acevedo said that while Valladares was killed by the FBI, those who orchestrated his kidnapping are still culpable.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2018
• The Indians are culpable, no question, but focusing entirely on them does a disservice to the opponent.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• He was initially convicted of culpable homicide — a charge comparable to manslaughter — and sentenced to five years in prison for the slaying.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024