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    Use "ought" in a sentence

    ought example sentences

    ought


    1. we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the


    2. ‘Hmmm … I still think you ought to have something to eat, Liz


    3. Not that he liked my advice always … I smile to myself as I recall some of the more memorable rows we had which started with me telling him that he ought to do something or other


    4. ‘Molly, can you pass on what I’ve said to Stephen, please? He’s in touch with the Inspector dealing with the case and I feel he ought to know about Dan’s behaviour


    5. ‘Mrs Wynell, I ought to tell you that I had another anonymous letter here at the police station today


    6. ‘I really ought to do something with this place


    7. ought to be calling security, but none of that mattered


    8. what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes


    9. I really ought to get some of those plastic boxes with lids … smaller ones which I could store all this stuff in


    10. But we ought to be obedient to His

    11. But they fuckin' ought to be because it could be one of them next


    12. know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself


    13. (28) The preacher ought to encourage men of faith to stand strong


    14. have been submitted (ought to be done by the most spiritually minded men in the church) Ch


    15. The elders ought to be the ones who are well known among the flock


    16. At one time I attended a business meeting and although I do not know all the past history of the congregation it seemed evident to me that some were still licking their wounds These matters ought to be dealt with initially on an individual basis and not be allowed to create havoc in a meeting of the congregation


    17. Whenever I hint that we ought to stop seeing each other she gets all upset and I can’t go through with it


    18. In chapter 12, he points out that the gifts ought to be a source of unity, not division because they all came from the same source and the church


    19. Especially at noon, when I was hungry and I wanted to go to a restaurant and eat something decent, Helen screamed that restaurants are too expensive, that we ought to eat nothing more than a souvlaki in hand, and that “certain people are like pigs, all they care about is food, food, food!”


    20. “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves

    21. mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not,


    22. “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which they possessed was his own; but they had all things common” (Acts 4:32)


    23. We ought not to deceive ourselves into thinking that suffering is normative and thus continue to blight the character of God


    24. Kara squinted, trying to focus on the woman’s face … she ought to know who this was, didn’t she? She moved, trying to get a better look and the figure on the chair stirred


    25. I’ll go and have a word with the doctor or whatever, shall I? I think we ought to cling to the relationship angle, don’t you? Cousin Karal?’


    26. Even if such a moment does not occur, we ought to be giving ourselves to this


    27. It’d be another positive outcome of this whole affair if she and JJ were to get together as Berndt seems to think they may … Abery Hall ought to have children running around its grounds … Kara, get your feet back on the ground! Talking of which, you had better get yourself moving … get this bread home and dig out that authority Berndt gave you


    28. This ought to cause us to put aside vainglories


    29. Gilla, we ought to organise some sort of announcement


    30. ‘I suppose we ought to allow Wiesse the use of his sitting room

    31. With him tied up Wednesdays and Fridays with ‘Mack & Mabel’ and the rehearsals we ought to have for the band, it is not going to be easy getting some practices for Prague as well


    32. “You ought to try coriax fur for these,” she said, “It’s really plush, even more than chinchilla


    33. It is also a rather sad fact that my underwear veers on the sensible side of practical and maybe I ought to think a little more in terms of sexy …


    34. 'Sarah, Dave suggested that you ought to have a laptop


    35. I know which group I belong in … However, after a considerable battle, which leaves me breathless and wondering yet again if I ought to go down to the gym more often, I have a nice clean set of bedding and a pile of bedclothes which I can shove into the washing machine


    36. Dave, in his wisdom, has thrown out the one I put together last week saying that there ought to be something with an Easter theme in it


    37. ’ Bill said – it is a standing joke in the office that Dave ought to print everything preferably in large letters


    38. The fact I have been ready to go for nearly half an hour is irrelevant … he greets me with a kiss and then, quickly looking at his watch, announces that we really ought to be moving


    39. The phones keep me fairly busy and in addition to that, I have to deal with deliveries and the odd caller … and some of them are decidedly odd! The guy who keeps ringing Dave up about crop circles came in and tried to persuade me that I ought to let him speak with Dave


    40. Actually, he was more bothered than I was about the working relationship, suggesting that I ought to transfer to a different paper, but that would be stupid

    41. Gradually, the waking moments outweigh the dozing ones and I decide that I ought to get up and try something solid


    42. 27Thou ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my


    43. 1And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not


    44. ‘You are good at this business, aren’t you?’ my boss said looking at me consideringly, ‘I think we ought to look to using this talent of yours more productively


    45. ‘Honestly, Sarah, you ought to think carefully about getting involved with this guy


    46. ‘I ought to start giving thought to packing but I don’t have any boxes


    47. Between the two of them they ought to be able to deal with the Three Stooges


    48. ‘You ought to know that!’ He chuckled teasingly


    49. He ought to have told her, instead of just pretending that nothing was wrong, getting up and going to work as usual … spending the day lounging around the job centre praying that something would come up, but the closure of the works had thrown a lot of men onto the dole


    50. No-one apparently had the faintest idea what it ought to be













































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