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Sentences starting with ought

Ought we to withhold from them a protecting hand? [10]
Ought I not to tell him so? [6]
Ought the president to take the money, knowing how it was made? [4]
Ought I not to regret having undertaken to report the doings and sayings of the members of the circle which you have known as The Teacups? [6]
Ought any, then, to refuse their aid in doing what good the good of the whole demands? [7]
Ought she not to have said, "If you do come, I will not see you? [9]
Ought not he to have alarmed the town first before he tried to find his father? [11]
Ought he not to greet this sudden end as a boon from the immortals? [10]
Ought he not to examine once more the reasons which had led him to this last resolution? [10]
Ought she not to be with me? [11]

Sentences ending with ought

I know how thoroughly in earnest you are, but I dare not even leave you hope--I neither can nor ought. [10]
But I saw this very stepmother wash and dress little Elsie, her husband's youngest babe and not her own, and lull her till she fell asleep; and she did it right tenderly, and quite as she ought. [10]
I observed a questioning glance as she entered, which I took for an attempt to read whether Mr. Marmaduke had spoke more than he ought. [9]
If you do not yield to me cheerfully in this case you certainly do not love me as you ought. [10]
I say, if it goes all right, because I've got to carry more than I ought. [11]
I fear I do not hate it and its luxury as I ought! [11]
But there ain't anybody any more to see things done as they ought. [8]
He also says, "Bysshe entered at once fully into her views and caught the soft infection, breathing the tenderest and sweetest melancholy, as every true poet ought. [5]

Short sentences using ought

You ought not, you see. [11]
What ought I to do! [12]
You ought not to be! [7]
You ought to read it. [9]
You cannot, ought not. [10]
He'd ought to know. [9]
You ought to know better. [10]
I ought to kill him. [5]
Something ought to have happened. [11]
One ought to do something. [4]

Sentences containing ought two or more times

I'll tell you what you ought to do, Mr. King: you ought to give a german. [4]
This you ought to set down to his credit: You ought to give him full credit for this much; little though it be, in comparison to the whole which he does for you. [7]
A garden ought to produce one everything,--just as a business ought to support a man, and a house ought to keep itself. [4]
I ought not to have been so heedless--I ought not to have asked you. [5]
Jack, you ought to be ashamed of yourself--you ought to be ashamed of such criminal ignorance. [5]
They ought not to be allowed much space among better people--people who did something--I grant that; but they ought at least to be allowed to state why they didn't do anything, and also to explain the process by which they didn't do anything. [5]
Then she remembered that he ought to be on his way, and she shook him gently, then, with all her strength, and called to him quietly all the time, as if her low tones ought to wake him, if nothing else could. [11]
They will send some one to you and offer you a sum far below that which you ought in justice to receive, You ought to fight this case. [9]
If Lammerton builds satisfactory houses, he ought to be forgiven for being the fashion, he ought to have a chance. [9]
She ought to receive him coldly, she ought to receive him kindly, she ought to receive him indifferently. [4]

More example sentences with the word ought in them

This place is your daughter's for her to do what she chooses with it, and I think she ought to sell it. [11]
At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
Hey yah (have you) seen ought o' my cofe (calf)? [14]
How much do you think they ought to 'a' got? [8]
I swear to you that, as a man and an artist, I never felt better, and so I ought properly to be in my usual frame of mind. [10]
At all events, you ought to thank Judge Douglas for it; it is for your benefit it is made. [7]
If--if you're poor, you ought to have told me so, and I shouldn't have ordered another dinner gown. [9]
If you lend you ought to have security. [11]
Sometimes I think you ought to go back to the Arcadia you came from. [9]
Do you think you ought to dress her that way? [9]
I don't think you ought to call me affected. [8]
And how happy you ought to be with him!--a man who knows what is in books, and who has seen for himself, what is in men. [6]
He was, as you know, greatly mistaken, and ought to have made love to me, only he did n't. [6]
I do hope you are worse scared than hurt, though you ought to know best. [7]
But seriously, Jethro, you and Wetherell ought to send her to school in Boston after a while. [9]
They were hostile; yet when the favourite intimated that he, too, ought to be given up to justice, she showed so much hesitation, that Alexas stopped abruptly and turned the conversation upon Barine. [10]
These describers are writing for the "general," and so, in order to make sure of being understood, they ought to use words in their ordinary sense, or else explain. [5]
Of course she would, and of course you ought to be ashamed of yourself for thinking of it. [11]
And this game would have gone on still longer but that she remembered that the seventeen must not be included at all, and that he ought to begin with eighteen. [10]
Looking over this wonderful prospect of the St. Lawrence, he had an insistent feeling that he ought to remain in the land where he was born, and give of whatever he was capable to its life. [11]
I--I was a woman--but sometimes I've thought I'd ought to have given him some sign. [9]
She quite agreed with him, praised and encouraged him, then she criticised his slovenly deportment, showed him with comical gravity how a warrior ought to stand and walk, called herself his drill-master, and was delighted at the zeal with which he strove to imitate her. [10]
Then, approaching him with both arms extended joyfully, she exclaimed: "Thus you ought to speak and feel, and therein is the answer to the question which has agitated my soul since yesterday. [10]
Here we're endowed with a faculty of mind that ought to be more supremely serviceable to us than them all. [5]
We ought to wish many sorrows to one, who can lament thus. [10]
Mr. Calhoun's a wise man, and he ought to be governor here. [11]
Any ordinary man will find that the story's strength is in its middle, and that there is apparently no way to transfer it to the close, where of course it ought to be. [5]
However, if you will examine every thought that occurs to you for the next two days, you will find that in at least nine cases out of ten you can put your finger on the outside suggestion--And that ought to convince you that No. [5]
Why, then she will certainly take them in hand personally, or I don't know her as well as I ought to, after all these years of intimacy. [5]
No doubt it will be hard to you to crave a boon, but ought you to shrink from those few steps over sharp stones? [10]
It is so wild and interesting and exciting and enchanting that it ought to take a week. [5]
I am your wife, and I ought to know--I want to know. [9]
I serve him whose master I believe I ought to be by birth; I hate Rameses, who, sincerely or no, calls me his brother; and while I stand as if I were the bulwark of his authority I am diligently undermining it. [10]
Old Ezra Graves, who's on the prudential committee, told Ephraim they ought to get you. [9]
That other one whom he thinks he loves better than he does me is tall and beautiful and majestic--like you; and I have always told myself that his future wife ought to look like you. [10]
It was Honora who told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself. [9]
Even the mortal who succumbs in a fair fight ought not to be enraged against the victor. [10]
We have men who ought to have been born in England, and who only find themselves really they go there. [4]
The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
What I learned while seeking after truth during those night hours ought to have taught me the connection between mind and body; yet I was never farther from perceiving it. [10]
The deep reverence which underlies all Emerson's speculations is well shown in this paragraph:-- "We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy. [6]
The moral of which is, that when one loans money to start a bank with, one ought to take the party's written acknowledgment of the fact. [5]
I don't know whether I ought to rejoice or despair. [10]
Do you know where you ought to be? [9]
He was selfish where this young gentleman was concerned, yet he knew well how the same gentleman ought to think, speak, and act. [11]
I'll settle millions where they ought to be settled, drop Wall Street, and--go into training. [11]
Before mother died, when she was sick, she always said I'd ought to have been a nurse. [9]
A pretty woman, whatever her airs and quality, is to be carried the same way, and a man ought never to be frightened by appearances. [9]
I don't know what we ought to do. [5]
The remembrance of what Kathleen said to him at the door--"I suppose I ought to kiss you"--came to him, was like a refrain in his ears. [11]
He figures up what all these taxes ought to amount to in a certain district. [5]
She knew quite well that she was doing a large and generous thing to pay for that lad, and that I ought in common fairness to come out with something handsome about it, but I couldn't--my mouth refused. [5]
But the first week of August in Munich it was delicious weather,--clear, sparkling, bracing air, with no chill in it and no languor in it, just as you would say it ought to be on a high, gravelly plain, seventeen hundred feet above the sea. [4]
We ought to wear emotional lightning-rods to carry off the brain-waves into the ground. [11]
You ought to wear a collar every day. [11]
The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence. [5]
I agreed that we ought to have a festival; but I did not know what object to devote it to. [4]
Taught by experience, we ought not to put on our things for this Brahminical one till we see the procession move. [5]
Naturally, I say, we ought by the time of middle life to come to a conception of what sort of things are of most value. [4]
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. [7]
Harris said if we had brought the courier along, as we ought to have done, we should not have missed these sunrises. [5]
My brother Geta was to reign together with me over the empire, which ought to have been mine alone as the first-born. [10]
But if it was threatened by any other influence, would not all men say that the best thing that could be done, if we could not or ought not to destroy it, would be at least to keep it from growing any larger? [7]
Fosters Opera House was some six squares distant, and by a liberal estimate Mr. Duncan and his advance guard ought to get back within twenty minutes of the time he left. [9]
And the mantel was now but a bit of a shelf, and held many things that seemed scarce at home on the rough and painted wood,--gold filigree; and China and Japan, and a French clock that ought not to have been just there. [9]
Jean thought she was not, but Maitre Ranulph said "Pardi, I ought to know, Jean. [11]
I hope it was genuine, for they cheated infamously in the matter of this concretion, which ought to come out of an animal's stomach, but the real history of which resembles what is sometimes told of modern sausages. [3]
Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day. [2]
Not even money-necessity was able to overcome me on a couple of occasions when perhaps I ought to have allowed it to succeed. [5]
That his letter was a tissue of vile calumnies, shameless fabrications, and unblushing and contemptible falsehoods, --by whomsoever uttered,--I have stated in a reply to what ought never to have been an official letter. [6]
They felt it was a matter they ought to be able to decide for themselves, but still it was the last evening of Lali's stay in town, and they did not care to take any risk. [11]
The commonest sagacity warns me that I ought to tell the customary pleasant lie, and say I tore myself reluctantly away from every noted place in Palestine. [5]
The Secretary of War, you know, holds a pretty tight rein on the press, so that they shall not tell more than they ought to; and I 'm afraid that if I blab too much, he might draw a tight rein on me. [7]
It is not very becoming for one in my position to make speeches at length; but there is another subject upon which I feel that I ought to say a word. [7]
There is one verse that ought not to have been rejected, because it so evidently prophetically refers to the general run of Congresses of the United States: "199. [5]
We have infinitely valuable forests in the State which are being wasted by lumbermen, which ought to be preserved. [9]
It seemed to us that everybody ought to be good in a country where it costs next to nothing. [4]
Every one of us dreamers ought to be insulated. [11]
That scoundrelly young upstart--" "If you want my opinion," I replied, trying to speak slowly, "it is that Mr. Farrar ought to get ten thousand dollars. [9]
I look back upon him now as a kind of heroic type of what a young New Englander ought to be and was. [6]
When I cut up an old fowl and help the boarders, I always feel as if I ought to say, Won't you have a slice of widdah?--instead of chicken. [6]
But he give up a good deal when he give up bein' a preacher; I s'pose we ought to remember that. [8]
Now, old man, unless you have great confidence in Mr. X's judgment, you ought to make him submit his article to you before he prints it. [5]
The steadily rising unearned increment of urban and mineral land ought, by appropriate direct taxation, to be brought into the public exchequer; "the definite teachings of economic science are no longer to be disregarded. [9]
Even with a type-setter on hand we ought not to be in the least scrimped --but it would take a long letter to explain why and who is to blame. [5]
I will invite two or three people, and if he does not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair--yes, my affair. [2]
This could be twisted into a plausible argument that the traffic ought to be squarely abolished. [5]
We ought to try to understand them better, and to be more aware of what they can do to us. [4]
You ought to try to get into the same establishment with Howells. [5]
If they aren't true, some one ought to have told us before now. [9]
Was this a trial of his constancy and faith, or had he made a mistake, entered upon a slavish career, from which he ought to extricate himself at any cost of the world's opinion? [4]
If they can't treat me as--as your daughter ought to be treated, I'll turn my back on them. [9]
A liberal disposition toward this great national policy is manifested by most of the European States, and ought to be reciprocated on our part by giving the immigrants effective national protection. [7]
Philosophizers on this topic say that a man ought always to be able to tell by a woman's demeanor towards him whether she is favorably inclined, and that he need run no risk. [4]
And we feel, too, that some of the city's Democrats ought to be loyal to Mr. Watling,--not that we expect them to vote for him in caucus, but when it comes to the joint ballot--" "Who? [9]
He was homesick, too, as a young husband and father with an affectionate nature like his ought to have been under these circumstances. [6]
Mr. Martin has told you everything you ought to do, and now I must give you some don'ts. [5]
Still I am told his property at St. Louis is subjected to the assessment, which I think it ought not to be. [7]
Every Unionist ought to wish the new government to succeed; and every disunionist must desire it to fail. [7]

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