How to Use culprit in a Sentence

culprit

noun

• The police eventually located the culprits.
• The defense in the case was to make Michelle a culprit here.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• In the case of the Atlanta, stormy weather was the culprit.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• The culprit is a weak cold front that is passing the area this evening.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• How to Treat It: If clothing is the culprit, loosen up the fit.
  — Jennifer G. Sullivan, Allure, 30 Jan. 2023
• The culprit is a not-so-scary cold front that will move across the South over the weekend.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• Coal, oil, and gas are the main culprits of climate change.
  — Christopher Merchant, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2024
• The use of pesticides and the loss of habitat and food sources are the main culprits.
  — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2025
• 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 owner wished to pursue charges if the culprit was found.
  — cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022
• Jealousy or envy may be the culprit as the moon and Venus clash.
  — USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• The culprit came and left in the dead of night, leaving no trace by footprint or film.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• The main culprit was the rapid rise in natural gas prices.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Apr. 2022
• The main culprits are development and a lack of the fire that scrub needs to thrive.
  — Ryan Ballogg, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
• First, a bit of myth-busting: Turkey is not the culprit.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• The culprit was likely tara flour—yet the FDA did not ban it until 2024.
  — Alana Semuels, TIME, 3 Feb. 2025
• As is all too often the case in life, the culprit—the villain—is the obvious one.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Dec. 2022
• The most obvious culprit of a stinky fridge is spoiled food.
  — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
• To many observers, the culprit for this outcome is clear.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 28 Apr. 2022
• If the culprit is a weevil, go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief—and maybe even check the critter out.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 July 2022
• Instead, the culprit must be microbes, either the sort that live in a marsh or the sort that live in a cow’s gut.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• To check if your toilet is the culprit, the DWP offers free dye tablets that go in the toilet tank.
  — Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• In my opinion, the culprit for this three is Malik Beasley.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• The culprit hasn’t been a severe injury, which is good.
  — oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
• At the end of the day, the Fed's inflation fight is the clear culprit for the U.S. housing market slowdown.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2022
• In the case of the avalanche on Sunday, melting ice and snow is the likely culprit, experts said.
  — Michael Phillis, Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2022
• Tatum’s six-turnover third quarter in Game 1 cost Boston, and in Game 3, Brown was the culprit, with five of them.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
• According to sources close to the festival, the likely culprits for the traffic jam were two small changes at the festival’s popular car camping ground.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2025
• The true culprit, a rambunctious zebra, tears through the screen and plunges a normal suburban home into tumult with the help of some other animals and a stash of fireworks.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2025