Words similar to culprit

Example sentences for: culprit

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

The culprit was apparently tied to the poles.
Analysts suspect the culprit may be somebody offended by Al Hayat 's eclectic articles and editorials--which is to say, just about anyone.
Will it also be the culprit in the EgyptAir crash?
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.
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.