Sentence for ought | Use ought in a sentence

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• You ought to know. (8)
• I think you ought to. (8)
• They ought to be hung! (9)
• I ought to be praying. (10)
• I ought to have known. (10)
• Eustace ought to revolt! (8)
• She ought to pay for it. (8)
• And you ought to, Auntie. (8)
• You ought to have seen it! (9)
• I ought to wait for Wilson. (8)
• We ought all to be Germans. (8)
• He ought to have been waiting. (8)
• They ought to set the fashion. (10)
• We ought to look at that again. (9)
• You ought to have another opinion. (8)
• She still thinks she ought to come. (8)
• They tell me I ought to take a cure. (8)
• I ought to have known how it would be. (8)
• I think you ought to have dropped him. (8)
• You ought to have a companion, always. (10)
• Blink, we ought all to be Germans, dear! (8)
• I agree that something ought to be done. (8)
• She ought to have told him so, perhaps. (10)
• In love, they say, you ought to excuse . (10)
• You ought to talk to Ellen, and caution her. (9)
• Lavender that crowd ought not to be at large. (8)
• You ought to do something about that report. (12)
• He ought never to have allowed the engagement. (8)
• I do not think any man ought to live by an art. (9)
• I shall tell Mother that I ought to try and work. (8)
• You are, about yours; and you ought to know him. (22)
• You ought to feel very much complimented by that. (9)
• He felt that her friends ought to be chosen for her. (8)
• He ought, I think, to know that he cannot change me. (10)
• You ought to be turned inside out on your own stage. (10)
• You ought to have been ashamed to let me stay so long! (9)
• They ought to bear the yoke in their youth, like we done. (9)
• He would confess no more than that there ought to have been. (9)
• I ought by rights to have been down beside her at midnight. (10)
• I think he was near happiness: he ought to have been happy. (10)
• At your time of life you ought to take an interest in things. (8)
• I came to ask you: Do you think she ought to go on with her work? (8)
• Harbinger expressed the opinion that the editor ought to be kicked. (8)
• It ought to give you more confidence in the thing than you ever had. (9)
• He wants the whip; ought to have had it regularly from his first breeching. (10)
• Possibly she ought to run out and beseech Alvan to spare the innocent youth. (10)
• This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself. (4)
• All this ought certainly to unmake the author in question, but this is not really the effect. (9)
• The gentleman said they ought not to have come so late, and he offered some formal apologies. (9)
• The sight of blood rushing into her cheeks gave him some satisfaction; she ought to be ashamed! (8)
• You ought to have spoken; you could have done it easily and naturally when you came up with her. (9)
• I tell Genevieve that, she ought to honor him for it, and that she must never be jealous of a memory. (9)
• Mrs. Mountstuart told him afterward that he ought to be paid salvage for saving the wreck of her party. (10)
• Such a loss the law does not consider an injury, because it is a loss which the party ought to sustain. (16)
• The material of which these paths and roads should be constructed ought to be in harmony with the house. (17)
• Now Segwuna must determine what she ought to do to keep her eyes on Arnold and Barclugh at the same time. (18)
• Even if she hated him, he at all events ought not to put himself in the wrong by neglecting this ancient rite. (8)
• It is, at all events, harder than to set men and facts down, as they ought, or ought not to be. (8)
• He acknowledged no such inducement, and his sister ought to have given him credit for better feelings than her own. (4)
• He said he ought to have put on his uniform for an expedition like that, in case they got into any sort of trouble. (9)
• I shall feel much safer if he gets a good long sentence; I do think we ought to be protected against such ruffians. (8)
• Perhaps I ought to have accepted the consequences of my failure, then, and have given up, and taken you away at once. (8)
• This was the serious way Rose felt that March ought always to talk; and he was too much grieved to laugh when he went on. (9)
• But they show us their way of solving the great problem, and we ought to thank them, though one or the other abominate us. (10)
• Other mill work of the exterior, such as porch columns, rails, etc., ought to be built up from stock mouldings and patterns. (17)
• The judge had some question, which he submitted to Breckon, whether he ought not to offer them something, but Breckon thought not. (9)
• A man of full growth ought to know that nothing on earth tempts Providence so much as the binding of a young woman against her will. (10)
• I felt that there ought to be, and that there ought to be some rule as to where the number of each tandem should be displayed. (9)

Also see sentences for: besought, bethought, bought, brought, drought, fought, nought.

Definition of ought:

• ought, awt, n. (same as aught_) a vulgar corr. of nought_. | adv. (_scot._) ought’lings, at all, in any degree.(0) | ought, awt, v.i. to be under obligation: to be proper or necessary. | n. ought’ness, rightness. (0)

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