Culprit Sentence Examples

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  • Was loneliness the culprit of her decision to spend the night?

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  • Did the culprit do my work for me or simply get in my way?

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  • Howie remained obsessed that he'd failed to nail the culprit and when he heard of this later case, he begged Quinn to take enough time away from his wife and new daughter for a single session.

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  • The sun is perhaps the greatest culprit of all.

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  • A man, not the usual wimpy social lady, was the culprit who organized the hasty departure.

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  • Betsy read a notice on the Internet a day later that the culprit was beaten and in serious condition, after allegedly resisting arrest.

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  • Further, they had the effect of sobering the culprit, and the more creditable part of his life did not begin till he left Vincennes.

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  • Perhaps the culprit was the person who beat me to the publisher in Vermont, the sponsor of that idiotic contest!

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  • A culprit is easily discovered either by an appeal to a local diviner or in torturing some one into confession.

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  • Fortunately, Brutus wasn't the culprit.

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  • Howie, with his disappointment intensified, vowed to do everything it took to apprehend the culprit he nicknamed the Delabama Killer.

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  • It took three tries bracketing the time before they hit on the culprit.

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  • Both the police and British Energy launched investigations to try and trace the culprit, but failed to do so.

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  • While I expressed my disappointment, he reminded me our culprit had a notorious habit of frequently changing stolen plates.

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  • Had there been a trial he would have been forced to reveal the culprit.

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  • One of these is the common culprit Poison Ivy, a plant notorious for causing major skin irritation to those who encounter it.

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  • If you suddenly develop discoloration under the eyes, a vitamin deficiency could be the culprit.

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  • Since you have treated her so thoroughly for fleas, I doubt this is the culprit.

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  • A major culprit in this can be poor composition.

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  • Sun exposure is the number one culprit for developing dark skin discolorations.

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  • The positioning of your model might be the culprit.

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  • According to Ulpian the punishment for sacrilegium varied according to the position and standing of the culprit and the circumstances under which the crime was committed.

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  • The penalties in the canon law included, in addition to restitution, penance, fines and excommunication; and right of asylum was denied to the culprit.

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  • I am never-the-less deeply annoyed by this culprit's ability to connect me to you.

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  • Eventually, the real culprit is found to be Roddy's dog, Murphy.

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  • I did a bit of research and found out that too much fructose could be the culprit.

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  • The culprit was a big grouper weighing around sixty pounds - an awesome fish with a mouth like a bucket.

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  • Whatever tended to infringe in the slightest degree on their darling monopoly was visited with the severest penalties, whether the culprit chanced to be high in rank or low.

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  • It is not appropriate here to unmask the culprit in the style of a whodunit.

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  • Yet another cat, who adopted me, seems to be the culprit for a daily dump in the same location each day.

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  • At each level, you have to photograph the different clues, as well as the different monsters to discover the culprit behind the mystery.

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  • It turns out a botched surgery on her nose and lips were the culprit this time.

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  • Whatever the culprit, your vet will then know how to pursue treatment to stop the itching.

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  • Birds are also a big culprit in harvesting blueberries, often plucking the fruit off the plant before it can ripen fully.

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  • Treat with the proper fungicides early in the season.Birds are the biggest culprit plaguing grape vines.

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  • If your indoor gardenia plant's leaves are turning yellow and you suspect temperature fluctuations may be the culprit, try moving the plant to a different location.

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  • Most of the time, it is ill-fitting Capri pants that are the culprit when plus size Capri sets don't flatter.

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  • Additionally, boxed wine avoids "cork taint," which is a culprit that has ruined many perfectly good bottles of wine that weren't consumed quickly enough after opening.

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  • It has been conclusively proven that another herpes virus-varicella zoster virus (VZV), the cause of both chickenpox and shingles-is the culprit for Ramsey-Hunt syndrome.

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  • If the culprit is, for instance, a cosmetic, avoidance is a simple matter, but in some situations, avoidance may be impossible or force the sufferer to make drastic changes in his or her life.

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  • The bacterial culprit in RMSF is Rickettsia rickettsii.

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  • Toxins produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum are the main culprit in botulism.

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  • When a child's symptoms appear in spring or summer and disappear with the onset of cold weather, seasonal AR is almost certainly the culprit.

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  • Allergy tests including skin testing and provocation testing can help identify the precise culprit, but may not be done unless a single source is suspected and subsequent avoidance is possible.

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  • One thing to keep in mind with financial losses is that there is typically more than one leaky culprit.

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  • Folk wisdom - and many advertisers - will tell you that poor circulation to the scalp is the culprit, or that you're losing your hair because you're not taking the right vitamins.

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  • Vitamin B12 is sometimes a culprit when hair loss strikes.

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  • If a large number of people report the same side effects, the company will investigate to see if the drug is really the culprit.

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  • The only other ingredients in pure kombucha tea are black tea, water and sugar or sweetener, so it seems that the likely culprit is one of the many strains of bacteria growing in the beverage.

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  • One report showed lead poisoning as the culprit because someone brewed kombucha tea in a ceramic container.

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  • It is the culprit that often makes people groggy after eating their Thanksgiving dinner.

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  • So, if you experience a strange and extremely itchy rash, the severity of which responds to a gluten elimination diet, you have strong reason to suspect celiac disease as the culprit.

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  • If you or someone you know suspects celiac disease as the culprit of health woes, then read on to learn if your condition parallels celiac sprue symptoms.

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  • Your doctor may require blood to be drawn and tests conducted to narrow down whether or not gluten is the culprit causing your symptoms.

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  • If you feel you are not typical of your sign (a weepy Taurus, an unemotional Cancer, etc) your rising sign might be the culprit.

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  • The three boys began debating with each other who the culprit was.

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  • Each boy suspected the other, but no one would admit the terrible possibility that not a single one of them was the ultimate culprit.

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  • Polyester and Lycra blends are a common culprit of overheating.

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  • While it is virtually certain that there are genetic components in play in the remaining cases that are yet to be explained, scientists have been unable to isolate a specific gene as the culprit.

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  • If you or someone you know has several of the following symptoms, it's possible that binge-eating is the culprit.

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  • Free radicals, as you may have heard, are the culprit for a multitude of health conditions due to their ability to interrupt the normal cell process.

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  • For low carb dieters, a big culprit is eating too many carbs.

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  • The primary culprit is saturated and trans-fats, which increase LDL cholesterol levels or "bad" cholesterol.

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  • Foods derived from animals are the primary culprit when it comes to cholesterol.

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  • Harry finds himself at the wrong place at the wrong time more than once and because of a unique magical gift, most of the students suspect that he is is the culprit behind the attacks.

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  • With the help of his friends, Harry must discover the truth behind the Chamber of Secrets and the reveal the real culprit or he might never be able to return to Hogwarts again.

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  • If you suspect a certain product may be the culprit, stop using it for a few weeks.

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  • If only one culprit in the age-old battle against wrinkles existed, it might be a fight easily won.

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  • Many people falsely believe that sunburns are the cancer culprit.

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  • The primary culprit is a substance called melittin, which is the most toxic component of bee venom.

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  • Oils and pomades that are designed to moisturize black hair may be the culprit in creating acne problems.

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  • For some, the culprit may be seasonal allergies.

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  • Dean had his guess as to the culprit.

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  • Cynthia was sure the culprit was Fitzgerald himself, and while Dean didn't doubt the detested acting sheriff was capable, he couldn't picture anyone taking that much risk and going to that much trouble for the questionable benefit of embarrassing candidate Dean.

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  • And then, to Dean's surprise, Weller added, Did you ever give a thought that maybe it's the wife who's the real culprit here?

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  • This was followed by a lone, solitary, slow hand clap, with the culprit uttering the words, " Nice job Anthony.

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  • At the end of each scenario, they must identify the culprit.

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  • For the large team of police on duty, intoxication was the prime culprit for action they had to take.

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  • Crucially, they failed to take any of them, Robert Earnshaw their chief culprit with seven misses.

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  • The main culprit has been thought to be the neurotransmitter glutamate acting through AMPA receptors.

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  • Nobody is talking of address by the United States, the home of the culprit transgenic maize.

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  • In New Zealand, the brush-tailed possum is considered to be the culprit.

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  • Under the worst-case scenario, the EU can suspend some of the culprit member state's rights, including voting rights.

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  • The armorial offender in Scotland is accordingly viewed with the same stern and unromantic outlook which meets any other culprit caught evading national taxation.

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  • Tabanus occidentalis was understandably the biggest culprit, tho six other species had trypanosomes in their bloodmeals.

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  • The elder Gibbon heard with indignant surprise of this act of juvenile apostasy, and, indiscreetly giving vent to his wrath, precipitated the expulsion of his son from Oxford, a punishment which the culprit, in after years at least, found no cause to deplore.

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  • In some places, in cases of crime, the members of the family or village would convey the culprit bound - sometimes even carrying him like a pig that is to be killed - and place him with apologies before those against whom he had transgressed.

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  • Under the worst-case scenario, the EU can suspend some of the culprit member state 's rights, including voting rights.

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  • Staphylococcus epidermidis is the main culprit for causing implant infections.

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  • Hannah knew that Michael was the culprit, but even when she stared at him accusingly he did not confess.

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  • However, now that you are aware that a common side effect of Zantac is diarrhea, the drug could be the culprit.

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  • Some will relate their symptoms to the weather, a bad mood, too much exercise, or a bad mattress leading to a bad night's sleep; meanwhile unrecognized stress could be the culprit.

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  • If you find that he or she is experiencing this symptom along with others on this list, depression may be the real culprit of your teen's behavior.

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  • The first step in determining if water is the culprit when your cell phone is malfunctioning is figuring out if the problems started occurring after the cell phone got wet.

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  • The culprit is likely nicotine, which increases blood levels of a gut protein involved in digestion, according to Brown University epidemiologist Edmond Shenassa.

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  • In children, lead ingestion is the major culprit of heavy metal poisoning.

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  • As Orson Hodge, MacLachlan plays the orthodontist husband of persnickety Bree, and he just happened to have been the culprit behind the wheel of the hit and run that struck Mike Delfino.

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  • Dieters often wonder why they aren't losing weight, and in some cases, diet soda weight gain may be the culprit.

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  • He went into the kitchen where he knew he would find the culprit.

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  • No matter where they are from, peaches are the worst culprit and number one on the "Dirty Dozen" list, with a rating of 100.

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  • In avenging wrong, a member of the village or of the clan to which the offender belonged would serve equally well to satisfy their ideas of justice if the culprit himself could not be easily reached.

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  • If the culprit himself could not be reached, any member of the clan was liable to suffer in his stead.

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  • The offence was clear; the law was undoubted; no particular sympathy was excited for the culprit; the sentence was not carried out; and Bacon did only what any one in his place would naturally and necessarily have done.

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  • Sometimes all the members of the family, or of a village, to which a culprit belonged would flee from their homes and take refuge in another village, or seek the protection of a powerful chief.

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