How to Use culprit in a Sentence

culprit

noun

• The police eventually located the culprits.
• The defense in the case was to make Michelle a culprit here.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• In the case of the Atlanta, stormy weather was the culprit.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• The culprit is a weak cold front that is passing the area this evening.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• How to Treat It: If clothing is the culprit, loosen up the fit.
  — Jennifer G. Sullivan, Allure, 30 Jan. 2023
• The culprit is a not-so-scary cold front that will move across the South over the weekend.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• Coal, oil, and gas are the main culprits of climate change.
  — Christopher Merchant, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2024
• Capsaicin is the culprit of the spicy heat in hot peppers.
  — Anthea Levi, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
• The culprit is the frequency and nature of the snacking.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
• The owner wished to pursue charges if the culprit was found.
  — cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022
• Jealousy or envy may be the culprit as the moon and Venus clash.
  — USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• The culprit came and left in the dead of night, leaving no trace by footprint or film.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• The main culprits are development and a lack of the fire that scrub needs to thrive.
  — Ryan Ballogg, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
• First, a bit of myth-busting: Turkey is not the culprit.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• As is all too often the case in life, the culprit—the villain—is the obvious one.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Dec. 2022
• The most obvious culprit of a stinky fridge is spoiled food.
  — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
• Instead, the culprit must be microbes, either the sort that live in a marsh or the sort that live in a cow’s gut.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• In my opinion, the culprit for this three is Malik Beasley.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• The culprit hasn’t been a severe injury, which is good.
  — oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
• The culprit of blossom end rot in tomatoes is not a bug or a disease.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
• But on many desks, experts agree, the quiet culprit is your mouse.
  — WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
• But if rats weren’t the culprit, what was? Walløe widened his research.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• But a livestock killing doesn’t always lead to a death sentence for the culprit.
  — Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Victor González and Tayler Scott were the culprits for a disastrous three-run rally in the eighth.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• Disease was the likely culprit in a few instances, and from 1100 A.D.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• The culprit is an average swing that’s 65.7 miles per hour.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
• In the days that followed, the State Department blamed a single culprit: Hamas.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• When the Bengals have lost this season, part of the culprit was starting slow and playing catchup.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
• Lamar’s agency must deal with e-commerce sites like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba, some of the current culprits.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
• Meanwhile, the families of the victims have long been pushing to have school officials held accountable, too, referring to them as the fourth culprit in the tragedy.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024