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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.
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.
The culprit was apparently tied to the poles.
Also, although there is some mention of the role computerized trading played in the recent intense action, there's not much discussion of how such trading differs nowadays from say, the 1987 crash in which it was considered a prime culprit.
The culprit, fearing unmasking by classmates, stepped forward and paid $1,755 to the sheriff who investigated the incident.