Example sentences for: ought

How can you use “ought” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There Ought To Be a Law!

  • But in reviewing the works of others, attention must be paid to such materials, and the Bibliography of Selected Sources and Dictionaries Consulted include only twenty-five titles under the former category (plus fifteen of Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey novels) and only ten under the latter, some of which are curious choices indeed: Robert Hunter's Universal Dictionary of the English Language, New York: Collier, 1897, which I have never heard of; Eric Partridge's Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English contains a great many errors and ought to be avoided by serious researchers; the author evidently chose not to wade through Johnson's Dictionary, relying instead on McAdam and Milne's A Modern Selection.

  • Bradley ought to understand this, not only because he's well-versed in the history of political reform--there's a chapter on the subject in his book--but because the challenge of campaign finance reform is so similar to that of tax reform, which was his own greatest legislative accomplishment as a Senator.

  • But it's a particularly dangerous foolishness for black Americans, because it leads us to take seriously thugs like the Black Panthers, and to glorify the Kody Scotts and Nathan McCalls we ought to condemn instead.

  • The reviewer ought to consider whether the work succeeds on its own terms.


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