Example sentences for: ought

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

  • (Incidentally, presumably the second or third sight in the triplet cite/ sight/sight ought to be site .)

  • One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.

  • I really think that we ought to do it, because I think it's far overblown to think that the fact that people buy over the Internet is going to reduce mainstream USA.

  • It has made standard--even admired--measures that ought to be intolerable in a democracy.

  • Turkish Kurds don't demand separation, only limited autonomy, and Turkey ought to grant that to keep the peace.


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