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:

Rather than test the candidates in such a formal setting, we ought to catch them off-guard.
The difference is that where gays ought to have appreciated Gore's effort, I'm not sure blacks support the idea of criminals voting any more than whites do.
The problem in reviewing these sets of definitions is that one can never be sure which definition of vulgar ought to be applied to its use in the definitions of the ancillary entries, for the word has a spectrum of meanings.
Finally, fictional people and places are listed in the main body of those dictionaries that include them, but real people and places appear in the appendices; as it may be assumed that users look up things they do not know, the immediate assumption is that they ought to come to a reference book already aware that Homer was a real person (despite speculation to the contrary) and that Jesus was both real and, as “the Jewish religious teacher,” fictional; fundamentalists will be disturbed to discover that most of the characters in the Bible are treated as fictional.
We ought to take gun dealers out of residential neighborhoods.