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Example sentences for: ought

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But, surely, someone must accept the blame, and that someone ought to be the person who employed what we have learned from innumerable cop shows on television to call the perp.
But, speaking of vulgarity, they ought to know that this is not from some "old folk tale," as Krugman writes.
That is (or ought to be) the duty of anyone who has staked his or her professional reputation on one particular scientific approach or methodology.
DeLay says that Clinton's "war room is totally engaged in jury tampering" and that "Schumer ought to recuse himself."
He also said that if Slate was going to criticize the legal terminology on Metabolife's Web site, it ought to acknowledge its own "much lengthier, more intimidating set of disclaimers that goes on page after page after page."