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Example sentences for: culprit

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As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.
The culprit, fearing unmasking by classmates, stepped forward and paid $1,755 to the sheriff who investigated the incident.
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.
According to the EFL Gazette [June 1988], a judge in Birmingham, England, was outraged that a Pakistani, resident in Britain for 23 years, had the effrontery to be so ignorant of English as to need an interpreter in court; he sentenced the culprit to two years' probation with the condition that he learn the language.
Typically, he conjures a Lutheran or Presbyterian setting for his novels, and his enthusiasm for those particular creeds induces him, at moments of crisis in one plot after another, to plunk his guilty male culprit of a hero (Updike's heroes are almost always guilty males) down on a hardwood pew and to subject him to a vigorous Sunday sermon on biblical themes.