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How to use culprit in a sentence

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Poor house-training, rather than something she ate or illness, must have been the culprit.
The real culprit is the unchecked fragmentation of land holdings in the rural areas.
The police say they are following a definite line of inquiry into the hoax call and hope to bring the culprit to justice shortly.
Aberdeen are still on the trail of the culprit and the club has made an appeal for supporters to identify him.
A hospital found his innards to contain two balls of undigested food, with the sprouts the most likely culprit.
The advocates urged the authorities to have a strong action against the culprit who threw chappals towards the judge at a Davangere court.
In many cases the police itself is the culprit in aiding and abetting the crime.
What this book shows quite clearly is that the real culprit is the lack of political will.
If the culprit is depleted uranium they are probably out of luck because any clean up would take a very long time and cost a lot of money.
The culprit turned out to be a small, aluminum dust cap from a hydraulic jenny.
And he would declare that they were compatible with sincere pain at the anguish of a justly punished culprit.
The culprit was quickly caught and thrown into a maximum security holding cell.
A soul-searching eyewitness account and immediate action by a journalist helped to at least nab the culprit.
Residents were so frightened that they set up a night watch to try to catch the culprit.
If you're getting a high-pitched whine rather than a hum your hard drive may be the culprit.
The point of a mystery is that the culprit is revealed to general surprise, not that vengeance is exacted for his crime.
Police are now stepping up the campaign to catch the culprit and have asked members of the public to come forward if they know who it is.
There were never any handprints, fingerprints, hair, or anything that led to the culprit.
The culprit, an office worker, was robbing his female colleagues, but no one could figure out where he was stashing the purses.
Nobody seems to know the cause of the deaths but the water seems a likely culprit.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And presently, chagrined with failure, the culprit was before his grandsire.
The judge would then qualify the crime, and decide who was the presumptive culprit.
Crime fell from the shoulders of the quondam culprit, and the tonsorial innocent stood forth confessed!
He was then there for the same purpose as myself, but the culprit in his case was a poisoner.
Under that authority they affirmed that they might stigmatize the great culprit without guilt.
As it was, she drove him to a dogged pursuit of the man he was convinced was the real culprit.
These evil results may always be minimized by placing a piece of millboard between the culprit and his victim.
The culprit was stripped and tied to the picot previous to receiving the bastinado.
There was a refreshing novelty in this case, where one of themselves was the culprit.
The matter of discovering and punishing the culprit devolved on Lambert alone.
The sheikh and his supporters are much addicted to bakshish, which enables many a culprit to escape punishment.
He is the transgressor in the first, and she is the culprit in the second delinquency.
A left heart cath, revealed the culprit lesion to be a totally occluded left circumflex artery.
But the 34-year-old culprit hadn't banked on confronting the off-duty cop during the incident on Saturday.
And, in a moment after, Miss Ophelia, in high indignation, came dragging the culprit along.
The culprit falters excuses, and professes a determination to do better tomorrow.
But if you will only have the patience to listen to my tale, you shall know who is the real culprit.
So that our culprit reasoned, like Paley, on the tendency of crimes.
It suggests to me that inductions themselves may not be the culprit behind the rising rate of cesarean delivery in the United States.
An unhappy culprit, found guilty of imperfect exercise, approaches at his command.
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