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Example sentences for "ought"

Lexicographically close words:
ouerthwart; ouertooke; ouerwhelmed; ouest; ough; oughta; oughte; oughten; oughter; oughtest
  1. That's what I ought to be looking for," answered Shack, "but I always think of others first.

  2. Why, where he ought to be with the pace like this, and three-quarters more to run.

  3. With the advantages of my handling, he ought to be a world beater, and no mistake.

  4. You ought to see him play football," said Billy here, looking up at the Colonel with admiring eyes.

  5. Why, Jack Harris, you know you ought not to touch a single piece, and you to run to-morrow!

  6. The sum which your cook told me that very turbot cost, ought to have supported any reasonable family for a week.

  7. It was originally, he said, accumulated from the successive donations with which a pious benevolence ought to enrich the fountains, from which spiritual comfort ought to flow to the wretched, the poor, the forsaken.

  8. They are so conscious that their discourses ought to be kept a secret, that they are very cautious of admitting any person who is not in the profession.

  9. He contended that the church property stood upon the same basis, and ought to be protected by the same sanctions, as private property.

  10. A man cannot do more than freely confess what is wrong, say that it need not be, that it ought not to be, and that he is very sorry that it should be.

  11. And we ought to be indulgent of all that Rome taught now, as of what Rome taught then, saving our protest.

  12. Two years since, I got your son to tell you my intention of resigning St. Mary's, before I made it public, thinking you ought to know it.

  13. I am sitting at home without a thought of Mr. Kingsley; he wantonly breaks in upon me with the charge that I had "informed" the world "that Truth for its own sake need not and on the whole ought not to be a virtue with the Roman clergy.

  14. I repeat that such a 'No' is conformable to the universal mind of man, and with this mind your own mind ought to be in union and alliance.

  15. This writer either knows nothing about it, and then he ought to be silent; or he does know, and then he ought to speak the truth.

  16. Courts of equity, however, long ago limited the mortgagee's right, holding that the real object of the transaction is to secure a debt, and that if the mortgagee obtains his debt and interest he ought to be satisfied.

  17. What the banker ought to do is to stamp upon the bill of lading, if he delivers it to the buyer, that a trust receipt has been issued for certain specified purposes.

  18. For the sale of land an agent's authority ought always to be under seal, and the provisions contained in this power of attorney will be strictly construed.

  19. The layman is frequently of the opinion that a lawyer ought to be able to give him a definite answer as to just what the law is in a given set of facts.

  20. Of course, the agent ought to exercise his choice properly, but if the carrier has given him the power it ought to be responsible for the results.

  21. They knew, and both economists and progressive jurists were pointing out, what is now generally conceded, that two generations ought never to have suffered from the baleful judgments of Abinger and Shaw.

  22. What ought to be done, of course, is to indorse on the bill of lading the fact that part of the goods has been delivered, with a specification of the part.

  23. That would be the way to obviate this sort of risk, but if complete protection against this kind of risk is desired, the insurance ought to be not only against fire but against destruction, or really against deterioration in any form.

  24. Suppose a certain quantity of Manila sugar is offered to one who has agreed to buy, and he takes from the seller that quantity of sugar, but finds it is not of as good quality as it ought to have been.

  25. As the agent is acting for the principal, the principal ought to pay all the bills of whatever kind incurred, so long as the agent is acting rightfully within his authority, and the principal is bound to pay all such bills.

  26. We must, because we ought not to have met at all.

  27. The young people ought to form a strong party; but you see what our young men are like.

  28. Pavel Ivanich looked very angry, and smote his forehead and gasped: "They ought to be shown up in the papers.

  29. Perhaps I ought to have married a town girl"--he went on after a silence.

  30. The rich and the educated ought to work like the rest," she went on, "and if there is to be any comfort, it should be accessible to all.

  31. I know you are obeying your conscience, but it ought to be possible to do so without hurting anybody.

  32. Nowhere in the world are women so truly respected as here, nowhere ought they to be more happy than in this country.

  33. A crowd is always grateful to the man who will do what everybody in the crowd feels ought to be done, but what no individual is quite ready to undertake.

  34. At least there will now be an urgent question among many of the best men in college whether it ought not to return.

  35. It describes the manner in which such a person ought to behave.

  36. We ought to have gone to de white folks 'bout it.

  37. He was a Democrat and said they all ought to wear them.

  38. I believes in churches and good folks but I don't practice them good things lak I ought to.

  39. Eve hate to see him sad, 'cause her love her husband as all wives ought to do, if they don't.

  40. They did them things they ought not to have done and they left undone de things they ought to have done.

  41. He ought to have done it gradually and give them a chance to get on their own.

  42. Oh yes, dere ought to be something else,' says Marse Tommie.

  43. De reason he talks lak he does, is 'cause he don't want to go to de trouble to 'nounce his words lak they ought to be.

  44. Dat somethin dat I ought to had ax my grandmammy 'bout how old I is, so den I might could call it up to you right sharp.

  45. Dat word 'home' 'minds me I ought to be goin' dere now.

  46. Man ought to do as God arranged it 'cause he plan it.

  47. I begun to feel dat I wasn't makin' as good time in de road as I ought to be makin' so I cut 'cross de field towards a narrow strip of woods close to home.

  48. When I told these things to "Trousers," saying that we ought not to have robbed that orchard, he claimed that we had a right to the apples, because my grandmother used to live there.

  49. I ought not to have been surprised to hear Brum say these words, for I had often heard him at the camps and elsewhere laud a certain Christian leader as "the greatest beggar that ever lived.

  50. This is, or ought to be, patent to any one who will compare the style of the Apostles and Evangelists with that of the monkish hagiologists.

  51. But just then Hadrian, his disciple, came from Palestine, telling him that Julian was slain, and that a Christian emperor was reigning; so that he ought to return to the relics of his monastery.

  52. If it be argued, that they ought to have been well enough acquainted with these beasts to be aware of their merely animal nature, the answer is--that they were probably not well acquainted with the beasts of the desert.

  53. And he said in himself that the ascetic ought for ever to be learning his own life from the manners of the great Elias, as from a mirror.

  54. They tell you quite honestly, not what they saw, but what they think they ought to have seen, or should like to have seen.

  55. The beast tore up the dead from their graves; devoured alike the belated child and the foulest offal; and was in all things a type and incarnation of that which man ought not to be.

  56. But the one tribe kept saying, that the first chief ought not to have it; and the other tribe trying to deprive the second chief of it.

  57. Some said that he ought to consult a doctor, others clinked glasses with him, while they bewailed the injury that vodka was doing to his health.

  58. Vladimir Mikhailovich, still humming, passed through into his room, and walked about a long time before it occurred to him that he ought to light the lamp.

  59. Do you think I ought to have gone down on my knees before the little chit of a girl, and wept, like an old woman!

  60. I love you," she continued, "and you ought to believe me.

  61. These people are raising lots of cattle and ought to be good to the Indian.

  62. There is a great deal of land leased by cattle men in Montana, and the money ought to go to buy more cattle for the Indian, and clothes for our children.

  63. I ought to know; I've worked right alongside him for over two weeks now.

  64. It seemed to him that there ought to be some way of getting those horses back.

  65. You're the most secretive thing; you are doing something dad doesn't know about, but you ought to know better than to think you can fool me.

  66. You ought to send it to the comic papers.

  67. Down to straight bumming--when I ought to be making my little old thousand dollars a flight.

  68. I ought to have gone to a hospital or some place.

  69. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Johnny Jewel.

  70. Mary V thought that her father ought to be told about the way Johnny was spending all his time--writing silly poetry about Venus.

  71. And he added disapprovingly, "There's a good deal you ought to 've told your dad.

  72. I brought five gallons; that ought to run us a ways," Johnny pointed out.

  73. They ought to camp at Sinkhole for awhile.

  74. Mary V felt that she was not being trusted by a person who surely ought to know by this time that he needn't be so secretive about his thoughts and intentions.

  75. Not all that art can accomplish ought she to attempt.

  76. As it was the height of the season, and both places were crowded with gay invalids, perhaps I ought to have been very much amused, but I confess I was ennuyee to death.

  77. But it's no matter about that, Phaddhy, it's of other things you ought to think: when were you at your duty?

  78. Indeed, I shall not give over, until I prevail on you to lead a quiet and peaceable life, as the father of a rising family ought to do.

  79. Never fear, yer Reverence, never fear; I think you ought to know that the grazin' at Corraghnamoddagh's not bad.

  80. In the meantime, you may as well tell Katty not to boil the mutton too much; it's on your knees you ought to be at your rosary, or the seven penitential psalms, any way.

  81. If you pass an unfavorable opinion upon our countrymen when in the public house or the quarrel, you ought to remember what they are under their own roofs, and in all the relations of private life.

  82. Bless my soul, and so it is indeed, Phaddy, and I ought to know it; an how is your wife Sarah?

  83. Paul said, "I am standing before the Emperor's judgment seat, where I ought to be tried.

  84. Beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another.

  85. David answered, "To-morrow is the festival of the New Moon and I ought to sit at the table with Saul, but let me go and I will hide myself in the field until evening.

  86. As surely as Jehovah lives you ought to be put to death, for you have not kept watch over your master whom Jehovah has called to rule.

  87. You ought therefore to have put my money in the hands of bankers and on my return I would have received it with interest.

  88. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

  89. Ought you not to live in the fear of God, so as not to be an object of shame to our foreign foes?

  90. I should not here have mentioned the Bohemian war, but that, while writing time history of my life, I ought not to omit accidents by which my future destiny was influenced.

  91. I ought never to have left Russia: this was my great error, which I still live to repent.

  92. For thee ought Heaven to have united a form so fair, animated as it was, by a soul so pure, to ever-blooming youth and immortality.

  93. This practice, and the praises he bestowed, encouraged a disposition which ought to have been counteracted.

  94. He sent to entreat I would visit him, and, when I went, having first requested I would pardon him, gave me to understand I ought to beware of my cousin.

  95. I ought to remark, that at this time, the University of Konigsberg was still highly privileged.

  96. No one ought to be surprised that officers of garrison regiments should be so ready to desert.

  97. And one of those five unfriendly punchers was in there, was he, conferring with Aunt Josie, when he ought to have taken his orders only from Uncle Fred?

  98. One of us had ought to find out whether those three punchers are really hid away in the ranch house," came the prompt reply.

  99. You ought to know the place right well; and how would it answer for a hide-out, where they could keep the cattle till they'd given every one the Walker brand?

  100. I reckon I had ought to keep an eye on Mister Thomas; who knows what he might be up to?

  101. How much of this was true, and what portion ought to be laid to the fancy of an overwrought brain the boy could not tell.

  102. But by now it seems like he had ought to have got a bunch of gun-fighters together, and be along here, if he's going to come at all.

  103. And the moon ought to come up in less'n two hours from now.

  104. Perhaps, since I'm discharged from my position here, I ought to clear out right away before night.

  105. It was my scheme, and I ought to have had a fair show of carrying it out.

  106. He was told in reply that, “As the Secretary of State for War considers that civilians who attach themselves to an army ought not be deemed eligible for war medals, the adverse decision with regard to Mr. Forbes must remain untouched.

  107. Jellypod--I ought to say here that I believe the familiar old Potterer nickname did not follow him to India--had the luck to get a special service billet.

  108. As soon as that subaltern was dismissed from riding-school, it became imperative that he should provide himself with a second charger--indeed he ought to have done so earlier.

  109. So in perfectly outspoken terms he denounced the Scarlet Hussar to the assembled mess, and told L’Estrange in the frankest manner that he ought to be hanged because shooting was too good for him.

  110. You ought to be sent to Blackwell's Island as a vagrant.

  111. You ought to dispense with the brandy and gin.

  112. Now, hadn't he ought to be ashamed of himself, the red-haired devil, for getting Old Nick into such a scrape by his drunken lies?

  113. Have you any idea what we ought to do to secure victory somewhere?

  114. I know I ought to have come down the chimney, but--well, you understand.

  115. I have met," said the Princess, "with many who live single for that reason, but I never found that their prudence ought to raise envy.

  116. All skill ought to be exerted for universal good; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindness that he has received.

  117. She ought to have feared me more than spectres.

  118. Before you make your final choice," answered Imlac, "you ought to examine its hazards, and converse with some of those who are grown old in the company of themselves.

  119. He, and he alone, has a knot of spotless friends, such as ought to govern this kingdom.

  120. Willis told the Lord Chancellor that the Regency bill ought not to be proceeded with as the King's disorder was practically removed.

  121. When professional education confers nothing but irritation on a Schiller, no one ought to be surprised; for Schiller, and such as he, are primarily spiritual adventurers.

  122. So, when he said things that ought to have hurt me dreadfully, I positively couldn't feel hurt.

  123. You ought to read Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild.

  124. And Thompson informed me next day that it was inconvenient to explain such things to conservative people, and that I ought to be more careful in dealing with the unenlightened ones.

  125. Well, I have had seven years of life, that is perhaps a little more than some people have, and I ought to be satisfied with that.

  126. I suppose I ought to think more of the reputation of my friends.

  127. Marie alone seemed free of it, in her relation to me, and yet she wrote: "I think we have a peculiar sympathy for each other, and yet I realise that in some subtle way there is not that perfect understanding there ought to be.

  128. They ought not, of course, to hate and despise anything, especially anything that means as well as you do.

  129. Marie is so young," she would say, "almost a child; and we ought to go easy on her.

  130. I suppose I ought to be grateful to Mr. Kohen, but somehow I am not.

  131. Even if not for my sake, yet because of your oath, you ought to have held it in respect, and kept it.

  132. They said he ought immediately to have fired up, and frightened the boy into dumbness, and that he had damaged his own cause by not doing so.

  133. Cordelia answered quietly that she loved her father as a child ought to do--she obeyed, honoured, and loved him as a father.

  134. Julia, or Sebastian, as we ought now to call her, was nearly heart-broken at the task imposed on her, but she carried it through faithfully.

  135. Banquo replied that he was, and that they ought to start at once, and with a few final words of civil farewell Macbeth at last let him depart.

  136. Oswald’s loud and cowardly cries raised the household, and by order of the Duke of Cornwall, Kent was seized and placed in the stocks, in spite of his protest that he was the messenger of the King, and as such ought to be treated with respect.


  137. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allegiance; burden; business; charge; commitment; dedication; deference; devotion; duty; ethics; fealty; homage; imperative; loyalty; mission; must; naught; need; nothing; obligation; onus; place; respect; should; want


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ought also; ought always; ought never; ought not; ought rather