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.
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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 -
During the 1980s, however, more and more opponents of Soviet rule became convinced that Lenin was just as culpable as Stalin.
— Andrew Nagorski, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2012 -
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
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