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Example sentences for: culprit

How can you use “culprit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

We would say, for example, that gone in He has gone is a past participle but an adjective in He is gone (if only because English does not use the verb to be as an auxiliary, the way French does); alleged in it was alleged is clearly a past participle, but in the alleged culprit it is an adjective.
As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.
Although FDR is not mentioned by name in her pieces, it's evident that he is the main culprit.
The culprit here is the school bag which every student carries to the school crammed with books and they end up with various back-related problems, such as backaches or backbone injuries.
Angered by the media's interest in the rabbi angle, local Hasidim offered semantic rebuttals ("everybody in this community is a rabbi"), Talmudic hairsplitting (the principal culprit wasn't a real rabbi because he didn't head a synagogue), and angst (who will tell the bad news to the aged chief rabbi?)