Words similar to ought

Example sentences for: ought

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

Mrs. Dalloway's flashbacks are of the Masterpiece Theatre variety when they ought to have been less objective, more impressionistic, even if such doodling had come at the expense of a full-bore narrative thrust.
Probably the first thing one ought to say is that the public has no interest in helping Bill Gates' rivals for their own sake.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the White House's furious reaction: "Somebody ought to tell [Starr] he's not the 101st senator."
It's like my relationship to the rest of the Web, actually, casual and uncommitted, without intense expectations about what ought to be there or any necessity, as with newspapers and magazines I read regularly, to see what Slate has to say about X.
We ought to take gun dealers out of residential neighborhoods.