How to Use culprit in a Sentence

culprit

noun

• The police eventually located the culprits.
• The culprit is a weak cold front that is passing the area this evening.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Capsaicin is the culprit of the spicy heat in hot peppers.
  — Anthea Levi, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
• The culprit is the frequency and nature of the snacking.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
• The culprit of blossom end rot in tomatoes is not a bug or a disease.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
• But on many desks, experts agree, the quiet culprit is your mouse.
  — WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
• But if rats weren’t the culprit, what was? Walløe widened his research.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Victor González and Tayler Scott were the culprits for a disastrous three-run rally in the eighth.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• In the days that followed, the State Department blamed a single culprit: Hamas.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• But, even as a teen-ager, Scott felt that technology wasn’t the true culprit.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• The team heads back to the motel and realizes that the person in the room with the adjoining door is the likely culprit to have swiped the samples.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2024
• That includes beans, legumes, spices, herbs, alongside the usual culprits, like fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2023
• Know how heels should fit One of the main culprits of foot pain and discomfort is poorly fitting footwear.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
• The primary culprit, however, is often not the wheel itself, but the way it’s attached to the cart.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
• Curbed reports that the likely cause of the stall is the cost of a gut renovation, citing the closed kitchen as the primary culprit.
  — Claire Brito, House Beautiful, 3 June 2023
• The culprit is a small sliver of tissue, buried deep within the fold running down the top of the brain, called the anterior precuneus.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
• What causes boils: Again, the culprit here is bacteria.
  — Daley Quinn, Women's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
• Two banks in Texas have been robbed; in both cases, the culprits have only taken a single safe-deposit box.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023
• Sitting here feeling sad for ourselves isn’t gonna be the culprit to us figuring it out.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Officers believed English was the culprit and aimed to pull the baby out of his hands while attacking him on the ground.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
• Rather, the cost of such aggression has to be rendered unsustainable for the culprits.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
• And yes, the culprit is that unending conveyor belt of bad news called climate change.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
• Read on to discover common culprits that may cause your baby to fight sleep.
  — Jana Banin, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
• Doncic was the main culprit, needing only 23 minutes to reach 42 points.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• The culprit is a half-baked screenplay that plays it too loose and falls short of being consistently funny.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• An arriving officer talked to the culprit, who agreed to turn his radio down.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
• The culprit behind the declines, the researchers say, is rampant overfishing.
  — Dino Grandoni, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• But global warming in recent decades is likely the culprit for the increased declines, the researchers said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Others want to find a solution to halt the noise, but if fish are the culprits, people might have to wait until their mating season ends.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• Sienna’s purple hair is the most glaring culprit in this case.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024