How to Use culpable in a Sentence

culpable

adjective

• They held her culpable for the accident.
• He's more culpable than the others because he's old enough to know better.
• But that is not to say that the culpable always bear the cost alone.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 July 2018
• Biden is, of course, fully culpable as the man with whom the buck stops.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
• To be white is to be the exception here and, in a way, to be culpable.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
• What process is there to make sure that leaders are culpable for their actions?
  — Bran Ferren, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2019
• Audits and jail time are also on the table if you are found culpable of tax fraud.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• There is this question about the extent to which the system is culpable.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
• Who’s culpable, who’s to pay, and who’s to get paid (other than the trial lawyers, of course)?
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 24 June 2021
• While each party blames the other, both sides are not equally culpable.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• Grossberg appeared to be among those culpable for the scandal.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• But the court did not say there had been widespread rigging or that the president was culpable.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• If there was a lab leak, just one, or a few, scientists are culpable of an accident.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
• Chanel is in over her head, inexperienced in this kind of work, but culpable at the same time.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• Neither could sustain him, and the spirits were partly culpable in his many dark sides.
  — John Henry, star-telegram.com, 9 May 2017
• The Mariners bullpen, which has been culpable in many of the blowout games this season, couldn’t slow the damage.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
• Humphrey and safety Chuck Clark have been culpable in recent weeks.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• But shielding the culpable and accepting the bare minimum is not the way to go.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Schoen is equally culpable for the unwatchable product on the field.
  — Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
• But the Wolves head coach seemed in little doubt that his player was more culpable than the officials.
  — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• Two of the men have co-defendants who are the more culpable killers, who are not being executed.
  — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
• Gamache must find who was behind the attack and whether that person is also culpable in a killing that happens soon after.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• He was later found culpable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the Goldman family.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Aaron Ramsey and Wilshere were both culpable in the first 15 minutes.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• But, in Henning’s view, Dunn and her fellow-jurors were not culpable.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2024
• Whatever the reason — who knows, maybe the Celtics are somehow culpable — we’ve been robbed.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• The defense maintains that Castile was high at the time of the incident and was therefore culpable in his death.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 7 June 2017
• To follow the defense’s logic, if Floyd was somehow culpable in his own death, so were the bystanders.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2021
• Mason Miller is the only reliever not culpable in one of those losses.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
• But equally culpable is the underpaid nature of the work, which is often piece-rate, Rahul said.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 31 Mar. 2026