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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:

As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.
David Frum's new book, How We Got Here , diverges from this hypothesis and designates as the true culprit the 1970s.
If the pigeon killer is still at large, thank heavens there's a real culprit for the mass shooting in Los Angeles.
Will it also be the culprit in the EgyptAir crash?
One's outrage over some disastrous contretemps is alleviated somewhat by the culprit's risible attempts to explain away the circumstances of his crime in pidgin.