OUGHT in a Sentence
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258 example sentences for OUGHT, such as:
1. Connie hesitated, she ought to go.
2. You ought to get your watch repaired.
3. He ought never to have been down pit.
4. I feel that we ought to accept his proposal.
5. He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.
2. You ought to get your watch repaired.
3. He ought never to have been down pit.
4. I feel that we ought to accept his proposal.
5. He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.
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Meanings and Examples of OUGHT
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ought
v. indicating duty or correctness; indicating something probable;
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
2 I ought to be more case-hardened after my Afghan experiences.
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3 He would end his remarks, he said, by emphasising once again the friendly feelings that subsisted, and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbours.
4 If I should ask any other question that may happen to have that result, give me credit, if you please, for being in ignorance how to speak to you as I ought.
5 It is the sort of thing you want, and ought to take, sir.
6 Since you are of opinion that she ought to have what she wants, I recommend you to provide it for her.
7 What a man of mould may," answered Athelstane, "providing it be what a man of manhood ought.
8 'This is the last moment when I ought to hate you,' she said resentfully.
9 'If you have the proper sort of emotion or sympathy with a woman, you ought to sleep with her,' said May.
10 No doubt water ought not to be so wet as it is; it overdoes it in wetness.
11 The fact that things ought to be something else than what they are, is not my department.
12 Connie hesitated, she ought to go.
13 'I do think sufficient civilization ought to eliminate a lot of the physical disabilities,' said Clifford.
14 She ought not to listen with this queer rabid curiosity.
15 He ought never to have been down pit.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 I feel that we ought to accept his proposal.
2 The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it.
3 In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another.
4 You ought to have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the hawker for criminal conversation with your wife.
5 Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, dress, soul and idea.
6 Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.
7 To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
8 Now that we're in Europe we ought to visit the Netherlands.
9 You ought to get your watch repaired.
10 The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
11 Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
12 He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.
13 I ought to begin to think of packing it in as a journalist.
14 One common Chinese notion is that the elders ought to be respected.
15 The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law, the principal law, in statutory form.