How To Use Culprit In A Sentence

Something was said of the propriety of walling up the culprit alive, -- a mode of disposing of small family-matters somewhat _à la mode_ in those times. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
Digital photography and fewer people taking holidays appear to be the main culprits there.
The government has announced that culprits in the scandal will be tried by military court.
They argue that the main culprits have been local authorities and that their spending must be further curtailed.
About 10% of Japanese teenagers are overweight. Nutritionists say the main culprit is increasing reliance on Western fast food.

When we focus only on delinquent students, we allow some of the real culprits in this cycle of school degeneration to escape unscathed.
If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra. Dr. Harold Katz: Bad Breath and Your Tongue
Port, red wine and stout beer are the worst culprits. The Sun
But do the dynamic duo have all the right ingredients to find the culprit? The Sun
The police are eager to speak to anyone who can help us to find and arrest the culprits.
If climate was the culprit, then people and proboscideans should have shared some of the same territory, at least until climate change shrunk proboscidean habitat.
The worst culprits are the big name stars demonstrating their actorly conceits. Times, Sunday Times
It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas,’ they wrote.
You'll soon be able to compile a list of your own personal culprits. Alternative Health Care for Women
‘There, there,’ I comfort. ‘You'll feel better once the culprit is caught.’
It would also be a good idea to use indelible ink, then the police would be able to spot the culprits.
The system is used to monitor culprits in jail. Analyze and design its hardware and software subsystem, realize real-time monitoring and administration within some area.
Some challenge the notion of corporate culture as the primary culprit.
Keep the kitchen clear of all sources of bacteria, not forgetting the biggest culprit of all?the dishcloth.
He alerted a police patrol at the top of the road and officers quickly arrived, by which time the culprits had fled.
But in putting the politicians in the dock and casting the public as their victims, he got the wrong culprit. Times, Sunday Times
‘The spooks and their uniformed agencies are both part of a smokescreen to divert attention from the real culprits,’ he said.
The process of deterioration is slow, but steady - the kind of food that is consumed being the culprit.
I may be brought before the "maire" as a culprit, and leave him as The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
The culprits are psocids - or booklice - which are common but harmless insects between one and two millimetres long.
All the men were being deported even though the real culprits in the fight have not been identified.
The culprits are a set of genes in the mitochondria. Times, Sunday Times
Keep the kitchen clear of all sources of bacteria, not forgetting the biggest culprit of all?the dishcloth.
Therein lies the real problem, the limitation on our liberties is the culprit, not the use of those same liberties. Matthew Yglesias » Free Speech
A hospital found his innards to contain two balls of undigested food, with the sprouts the most likely culprit.
Paul did not think so; but he made no reply to the angry man, though he ordered the alleged culprit to the mainmast, which is the locality of the high court on shipboard. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim
The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
Also, people who held a hot therapeutic pad versus cold were more likely to choose a gift for a friend rather than for themselves. 4 In this case, it appears that the insula is the culprit -- it processes physical warmth and social warmth. Srinivasan Pillay: Want to Be More Giving? Try Warming Your Hands
But isn't it always the case, that while one tap body will unscrew nicely, the other (the hot tap and main culprit) was jammed in there tight!
The defence was to be entrusted to the well-practised but now aged hands of that most experienced practitioner Mr Chaffanbrass, than whom no barrister living or dead ever rescued more culprits from the fangs of the law. Phineas Redux
But do the dynamic duo have all the right ingredients to find the culprit? The Sun
It implores the police to have a third eye when investigating such cases by digging deeper and bringing the culprits to book.
Besides the usual culprits that you never fail to blame, the loggers, I have noticed you haven't mentioned how much those Whoppers you so proudly scarf while you cruise the relatively new highways crisscrossing the state as you visit your pals in their quaint villages and enjoying other scenic splendors of that magnificent state have contributed to the massive loss of virgen forests. Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip
I have heard that some men handle the culprits roughly, is the problem that serious?
In trying to save his administration from a carpeting, the Councillor was writing today to name the culprits responsible.
Survey of students finds health risks for formaldehyde and dichlorobenzene in homes and schools...biggest culprit by far, responsible for half of the Los Angeles teenagers' cancer risk. There Is No American Culture
The real culprit is the private sector, far too dependent on low wages in the place of investment.
About 10% of Japanese teenagers are overweight. Nutritionists say the main culprit is increasing reliance on Western fast food.
Police hope the public will help them to find the culprits.
Research for the Scottish Executive has fingered mean-spirited van drivers as the worst culprits in cutting up cyclists and blocking cycle lanes, with cab drivers not far behind in the pedal-power demonology.
But in fact it was a rare misfire and the culprit cartridge was ejected.
But here's an example of the sort of designer bullshit that I reckon is more to blame for clients dismissing designers and refusing to pay good money for the job than the usual culprit, the PC and cheap software: More designer bullshit
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.
I gathered from the expression of the officer's face, and the dread legible upon the culprit's, that it might be some considerable time before his itch for breaking the eighth commandment could be again indulged in. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
The biggest food waste culprits include bagged salad and fresh herbs. The Sun
We would also like to see the real culprits forced to face up to their irresponsibility.
Port, red wine and stout beer are the worst culprits. The Sun
The main culprit is the famous Crow's Nest Pass. rate agreement which has kept grain freight rates at the same level since 1897. Transportation in the Eighties
Most of the school's walls were covered in scribbles and the culprits also used cutters to leave etching marks on a lot of windows.
Stubbornly low airfares hurt the airlines, but the biggest culprit is the soaring cost of jet fuel.
You'll soon be able to compile a list of your own personal culprits. Alternative Health Care for Women
In their research, the investigators focused on a class of cancer-causing culprits found in cigarette smoke called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. Smoking damages DNA within minutes, research shows
All the men were being deported even though the real culprits in the fight have not been identified.
The other culprit in boar taint is something called skatole, which is produced when pigs digest food, but it can be controlled with diet. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Police are hunting the culprits, who if caught can expect to be charged with theft and defacing a public building.
Someone broke a cup: who was the culprit?
A witness spotted the culprit leaving the scene wearing beekeeping suit. The Sun
There were never any handprints, fingerprints, hair, or anything that led to the culprit.
Eating quickly, attempting to swallow a large amount of food or swallowing fibrous and/or poorly chewed food (meat is the most frequent culprit) often results in choking in humans. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
Junk mail, inserted fliers, prepacked goods etc could be stopped by penalising the culprits. Times, Sunday Times
By far the most disturbing aspect of this corruption is the country's reluctance to punish any of the culprits.
Lake trout, also called mackinaw, are, beyond any reasonable doubt, the primary culprits in the decline of the Blue Mesa salmon fishery. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Our leaders go through a ritualistic exercise, vowing to unearth the culprits immediately and giving them exemplary punishment.
The prime culprit is organic farm waste, such as cattle slurry and silage, and even milk.
‘I was one of the culprits,’ Nolan said as Wanderers totted up a number of missed opportunities.
The Europeans in this regards are the worst culprits, with more and more useless regulation being used as barriers to free trade.
The intelligentsia are as confused as before, and their main preoccupation is finding culprits abroad, such as the Elders of Zion and the Western imperialists, for the misery of their society. A Failure of Intelligence
We have a cop who falls in love with a possible culprit in a murder mystery.
Pick some working class backbench nomark to generate some headlines and let the real culprits sneak out of town (To Washington DC to meet Obama on Tuesday to be precise) Sir Fred Goodwin Was My Chauffeur !
Secret cameras were placed along the trail in an attempt to identify the culprit. Times, Sunday Times
So, inflammation is definitely the problem and one particular protein called TNF, tumor necrosis factor, is the real culprit. Archive 2007-01-01
Most observers speculated that De La Hoya's high - protein , low - carbohydrate diet was the culprit.
Armed police raced to the scene but could not find the culprit. The Sun
Though initially aimed at profligate Italy, the actual culprits were Germany and France, which have been running big deficits over the last three years as their economies flirted with recession.
From the blatant Republican policy doublespeak emanating from think-tank sponsored word doctors to the outright obstruction and lies expectorated by Republican congressional representatives and senators, the very concept of governance can only be considered once the culprits are removed. Steven Weber: Comedy Relief
The real culprit that was slowing the line was a bar code scanner that was incorrectly hooked up… sort of.
The culprits skidded round the green in a Peugeot car before crashing into a tree sapling and running off.
A couple of hours later we saw the culprit by our pond - a 4 ft dugite slithering across the lawn.
Police say they are doing all they can to bring the culprits to justice.
The girls were coerced into silence by the culprit about what they had experienced.
The late Verna Wright, then co-director of bioengineering at Leeds University, called the claim that upright posture is the culprit for frequent back problems in humans ‘nonsense.’
Of course, social media aren't the only culprits gluing us to our phones. Times, Sunday Times
Police and all concerned parties are working together to bring the culprit or culprits to justice.
The culprit turned out to be a small, aluminum dust cap from a hydraulic jenny.
Are the culprits birds, animals or insects, and how do I prevent it?
Politicians are the culprits and they need to take the blame. Times, Sunday Times
He thought it was a phone pest until police collared the culprit with a phone tap.
My objections to both direct election of Senators and live coverage of Congress have been rehashed passim ad nauseum, so I merely note them, and point to them as the real culprits rather than the confirmation hearings in abstracto, the villain of the piece in some comments above. Lawprof Bruce Ackerman says we should require Senate approval of senior White House staff positions.
Solar power was a particular culprit, with subsidies per worker exceeding average wages but with very little to show for it. Times, Sunday Times
Researchers don't yet know whether decaf is the culprit.
The police followed home the clue and finally caught the culprit.
Are you the culprit who broke this window?
But she said supermarkets were the real culprits for selling alcohol to under-age drinkers.
He then joked that he expected I would be representing one of the culprits in due course. Times, Sunday Times
All the men were being deported even though the real culprits in the fight have not been identified.
It will be noticed, that the retainers guarding the exterior and entrance are barefooted, which is a mark of respect in honour of the rank of the culprit, and of the solemnity of the occasion. Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
A shot was discharged and the culprit fled the scene.
The eustachian tube, leading from the middle ear to Joe's throat, is the culprit.
Politicians are the culprits and they need to take the blame. Times, Sunday Times
Researchers discovered fluoride was the tooth discolouring culprit and mistakenly thought fluoride was also the cavity-fighting hero – unaware that calcium was required to grow sound dentition. Archive 2008-01-01
The culprit, according to a 2006 study, is having to exude what they called fake happiness. Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us
Rather: It has been more than a year and half now since the string of deadly anthrax attacks in this country, and still no arrests, even though investigators believe they know who the culprit is and where he is. The Wrong Man
While the Government, the police particularly, have lamented about increasing road carnage resulting from overloading, nothing seems to be solved because no punishment is meted out to the culprits as they corruptly get away with it.
Secret cameras were placed along the trail in an attempt to identify the culprit. Times, Sunday Times
But soon attention will likely shift to another culprit: homocysteine. The Scientist
It's going to follow a pair of celebutante cosmetics heiresses who lose their fortune in a corporate scandal, as they launch an investigation to expose the culprit.
So who are the real culprits here? Times, Sunday Times
Manchester scrapyards operate a ‘police book’ system of taking names, addresses and details of everyone who sells them metal - so the culprits may already be on record.
Aberdeen are still on the trail of the culprit and the club has made an appeal for supporters to identify him.
The real culprit is the unchecked fragmentation of land holdings in the rural areas.
Manufacturers hydrogenate soybean oil to reduce its content of unsaturated fatty acids, particularly linolenic acid, the primary culprit responsible for causing food to become stale or rancid.
She said the culprits are gangs of teenagers, aged between about 17 and 19, who are often seen meeting up on their mopeds.
But a hidden camera reveals the real culprit isn't even human after all.
sjambok" serves as "a little bit of medicine" to cure the culprit, ANC Daily News Briefing
Crusades, war against Russia, Serbia and others are the effect, the culprit is the ideology of globalization which has adopted the worst of communism, NS and capitalism. hardtruth Tell Obama: Dump Gates « Antiwar.com Blog
Other problems were man-made, the culprits being the taverns and alewives who produced perhaps the bulk of the ale consumed outside the great households. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
The culprit will then accept adverse criticism without sulking. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
I'm using Firefox as a browser and wonder if it in someway can be the culprit. Remember Me, isn't remembering?
I wonder if misplaced priorities is one of the culprits. Christianity Today
Police hunting the culprits have condemned the attack.
Here are the main culprits. The Sun
Growing pessimism over employment prospects was identified yesterday as the main culprit for this month's slump in confidence. Times, Sunday Times
To name culprits who had not defended themselves and were not obliged to do so would have been the moral equivalent to convicting someone without due process.
Most discourteous cell phone culprits are inherently ill-mannered.
Experts have said possible culprits are a pest called varroa, pesticides, climate change and loss of habitat. KESQ.com - Local News
As we entered their den, said a common mumper, to whom we had given half a teston, Worshipful culprits, God send you a good deliverance! Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Winter weather can be nasty, and two of the meanest winter culprits are hypothermia and frostbite.
By the laws of probability, the culprit was most likely an obnoxious American tourist.
Maybe it's true they can't easily get hard evidence to nail the culprits.
Jack Adler thinks he's fingered the culprit: a submicroscopic black hole, smaller than an atom, heavier than a mountain, older than the stars. January 2009
But here it is, chaotically shot and narrated by the culprits themselves and painstakingly reassembled. This week's new films
As I write, the bilious countenance of a culprit is peeping through the iron grates of a window, who, may be, is atoning for having invaded a henroost or bagged an unsuspecting pig. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
In the financial world, the larceny is effectively decriminalized - culprits typically settle in cash with fines or settlements, without admitting guilt but promising not to do it again.
The slow, dismal tolling of bells; the masked and muffled familiars; the Dominicans carrying their horrid flag, followed by the penitents behind a huge cross; the condemned ones, barefoot, clad in painted caps and the repulsive sanbenito; next the effigies of accused offenders who had escaped by flight; then, the bones of dead culprits in black coffins painted with flames and other hellish symbols; and, finally, the train closing with a host of priests and monks. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
A major manhunt was launched and detectives made numerous appeals in a bid to catch the culprit.
Fizzy drinks aren't the only culprit: poor layout and the wrong kit in our kitchens can conspire to make us fat. Times, Sunday Times
The specific culprit is a neurochemical called GABA (for you science geeks, that's short for gamma-aminobutyric acid), which is reduced by nearly 30 percent in people who have been suffering from insomnia for more than six months. Dr. Michael J. Breus: Good News for People with Insomnia
The most common culprit was an anti-depressant known as amitriptyline. Houston Chronicle
Different moulds peak at certain times of the year and it may be possible from this to deduce which one is the culprit. The Allergy Handbook
The point of a mystery is that the culprit is revealed to general surprise, not that vengeance is exacted for his crime.
To calm public opinion, police must quickly arrest the culprits and solve this case.
Arts market, some writing, failed submissions to an open exhibition, our joint 100th birthday, family stuff, loads of photography (like this crescent moon - click on it for full size to see the craters) and a UK premier of a film to organise plus two other screenings for the science festival but the main culprit is the return to full time day job for pension reasons! Archive 2008-04-01
The fatal day was at hand, and the corporal was put in capilla, that is to say, in the chapel of the prison, as is always done with culprits the day before execution, that they may meditate on their approaching end and repent them of their sins. The Alhambra
When things go wrong, there is a natural wish to find culprits and seek compensation. Times, Sunday Times
If you're getting a high-pitched whine rather than a hum your hard drive may be the culprit.
Pesticides and added sulfites can create allergic reactions causing a person to think he is reacting to a food, when, in truth, the culprits are likely to be these additives.
Air can leak in or out of the home from door and window frames, electrical outlets and exhaust vents, to name just a few of the culprits.
People sometimes suggest that gerrymandering is the culprit, but political science disagrees. Matthew Yglesias » Polarization + Supermajority = Disaster
Police and all concerned parties are working together to bring the culprit or culprits to justice.
The main culprit in the current crisis seems to be modern farming techniques.
The three most widely used culprits -- Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and Red 40 -- contain compounds, including benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl, that research has also linked with cancer. EatingWell: Trick or Treat: The Hidden Health Risks of Food Dyes
The second culprit is a biomechanical form of laziness that keeps the lower back from doing its fair share of the work, and thereby stunts its development.
Some of the 'borderline' culprits involved: Prothonotary Mireille Tabib, 284 Wellington TSA-6032, Ottawa ON Canada K1A 0H8 613-992-4238 Fax 613-952-3653; Phil Fontaine of the AFN is a partner in CBSA's Sustainable Development Strategy 2007-9; Chris Kealey, Canada Customs Excise, Immigration Taxation Board, CBSA Media Relations 613-991-5197; President CBSA Feminist blogs
The smart airlines are the real culprits. Times, Sunday Times
They spoke of witnesses being coerced into changing their testimony to peg Simpson as the culprit.
Transport police are hunting the culprits and appeal for anybody who saw what happened to come forward.
When we focus only on delinquent students, we allow some of the real culprits in this cycle of school degeneration to escape unscathed.
European ethnocentrism is not, therefore, the sole culprit.
High-carb foods such as snack chips, fries, pizza and sodas appear to be the biggest culprits.
Voice over Police hunting the culprits have condemned the attack.
The police are now on the scent of the culprit.
Frowning, I glanced around the room trying to find the culprit responsible for interrupting my reading.
The culprit is a deadly gas called MW pronounced "Muu", and the government quickly covers up the incident to protect the secret of its weapon of mass destruction. Manga Mondays with Kethylia 11/5 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
She overheard the culprit say, with bated breath and evident sincerity, to his comrades: "Hadn't nothing in my hat, anyway!" and one of the infant class was heard to complain, in a deeply-injured way, that the bird's nest was HIS, and had been "stoled" from his desk. Colonel Starbottle's Client
Different moulds peak at certain times of the year and it may be possible from this to deduce which one is the culprit. The Allergy Handbook
He might deliver a speech calling for the improvement of congressional investigations without directly indicting the primary culprit whose excesses prompted the reproofs.
The rogue was most probably one of the vagrants, and like a flash it entered his mind that the ropedancer, Kuni, who in her prosperous days, instead of eating meat and vegetables, preferred to satisfy her appetite with fruits and sweet dainties, might be the culprit. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Over the last couple of years, Thomas Amrein and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have shown that the culprit is the traditional leavening agent: not familiar baking soda or powders, but ammonium bicarbonate, which is sometimes called hartshorn because it was originally obtained by heating deer antlers.
I am guessing that the culprit is the Internet (and cable). Matthew Yglesias » The George Will Scandal and the Decline of Great American Newspapers
It didn't take long to follow the trail of flowers and water to find the culprit: my kitty Arthur, who was lapping up the water, as nonchalant as could be!
Editorial: The culprit is a national policing structure that has become a convenient model of obscuration and unaccountability The Speaker: Bercow's boundaries | Editorial
Humidity and mineral salts are the main culprits.
Apart from bad weather at the time, it seems that the main culprit was a tear in the airship's doped fabric covering.
In my opinion, they should stop hounding law-abiding citizens and set about catching the obvious culprits, whoever they are.
The culprits entered, pulled open a grate to the underground chamber, but ignored Toscanini's coffin.
Supreme Court officials acknowledge that their own telephone system was the culprit for the leak.
Mired in the humanistic belief that someone must be pushing the planchette, our unease grows as we cannot pin down the culprit.
Instead of sending him, as it is customary to send culprits, in the boats to witness the execution of his shipmates, he ordered him into his cabin, and having represented in the mildest and most feeling terms the heinousness of the crime which he was known to have committed, he assured him that it was his intention to spare him the anguish he must endure of beholding his late companions suffering the last penalty of the law for the very crime of which he had been guilty. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I
Yuccas and orchids are common culprits. Times, Sunday Times
The chief culprits were energy and food. Times, Sunday Times
The survey also showed that crimes of vandalism had increased by almost one-fifth over the same period, with some of the culprits aged as young as nine.
The young rascal is a girl in boy's clothes, sir! said the officer who had the culprit in custody. The Hidden Hand
What this book shows quite clearly is that the real culprit is the lack of political will.
The safety of saccharin has been debated for the past several decades, but this time the culprit ingredient is aspartame, commonly found in sugar-free diet drinks.
Strangely, nobody said anything, but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays.
In my experience, it will usually be a particular inner or nested loop, or a call to some third party library methods, which is the main culprit for running the program slow.
Very nice, but perhaps also the campiest of the season (with the alien's gas balancing problems the main culprit.) Doctor Who Season 1 Thoughts...
Still others think that chemicals, detergents, and soaps - or even spermicides and lubricants - might be the culprits.
The culprit is Burson-Marsteller chief executive and oft-mocked Clintonista Mark Penn, who today writes that "Cleggmania" will soon be coming to these shores, with the same indefatigable certainty as other U.K. exports, like "Torchwood" and "knifecrime. UK Elections Inspire Witless Microtrends From Mark Penn
Keep the kitchen clear of all sources of bacteria, not forgetting the biggest culprit of all?the dishcloth.
One of the major culprits in building up tensions is the nagging thought of the accumulated small jobs put off from day to day.
Looking at a dozen or so components, they determined that the main culprits in the tobacco malodor, after nicotine, include substituted pyrazines and pyridines (compounds that contribute a burning, smoky smell) and para-cymene (lending green or herbal notes). This Job Stinks: Chemists
Big cities and towns such as Sofia and Stara Zagora are the main culprits - they don't have adequate water treatment facilities and often outflow their effluence into small rivers with very little dilution.
So far, nobody has dared to suggest that European politicians could be the culprits.
We stood there in the vet clinic with one of the assistants calmly considering the possible reptilian culprits - rattler, cottonmouth, or copperhead.

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