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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.
No competitor or other external agent can cause this sort of mortal damage; to find the culprit, senior management needn't look further than a mirror.
Chief culprit in Darger's case is one John MacGregor, an art historian to whom Darger's former landlord, now his executor, has bequeathed semi-exclusive access to some of the Darger material, and who is thus the main disseminator of Darger criticism.
The culprit is indoor air, which is filled with dust mites, cigarette smoke, cockroach remains, and pet dander.
David Frum's new book, How We Got Here , diverges from this hypothesis and designates as the true culprit the 1970s.