Sample Sentences for
culprit
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    The culprit must have known it was only a matter of time before I caught him.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for wrongdoing
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    The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.  (source)
    culprit = someone responsible for a crime
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    He had a hunch that the culprit (or culprits) intended something more serious than juvenile pranks.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
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    Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for wrongdoing
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    Prudence had further news of the culprits.  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
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    The smell of body odor hung over them like a stinky mist, and he just hoped he wasn't the worst culprit.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
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    Who are the culprits?  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
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    Their arrival was dreaded by the elder Miss Bennets, and Jane more especially, who gave Lydia the feelings which would have attended herself, had she been the culprit, and was wretched in the thought of what her sister must endure.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
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    Because if word of it gets out, the culprits will have their first victory.  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
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    Mr. Earnshaw snatched up the culprit directly and conveyed him to his chamber; where, doubtless, he administered a rough remedy to cool the fit of passion, for he appeared red and breathless.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
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    They are the real culprits.  (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
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    There was no voice of rebuke; but there were averted eyes; there was a silence and an air of solemnity that struck a chill to the culprit's heart.  (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
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    She sits down, obviously pleased that the culprits have been caught.†  (source)
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