21407 examples of ought in sentences

Her lips were parted, and she breathed a little faster than so healthy a girl ought to breathe in a state of repose.

He himself sings more like a bird than any other poet, because it never occurred to him, as to Goethe, that he ought to do so.

"I heerd the little ones and some of the old ones tellin' what they was goin' to give Mary Pynchon when she got married; and it set me to thinkin' what I could give her, for I knew if anybody ought to give her anything, it was me.

What ought I to forego?

Ought I that impulse to obey?

Both in feeling and in conduct, habit is the only thing which imparts certainty; and it is because of the importance to others of being able to rely absolutely on one's feelings and conduct, and to oneself of being able to rely on one's own, that the will to do right ought to be cultivated into this habitual independence.

And hence the sentiment of injustice came to be attached, not to all violations of law, but only to violations of such laws as ought to exist, including such as ought to exist but do not; and to laws themselves, if supposed to be contrary to what ought to be law.

We do not call anything wrong, unless we mean to imply that a person ought to be punished in some way or other for doing it; if not by law, by the opinion of his fellow creatures; if not by opinion, by the reproaches of his own conscience.

To give any meaning to Kant's principle, the sense put upon it must be, that we ought to shape our conduct by a rule which all rational beings might adopt with benefit to their collective interest.

Thus, a person is said to have a right to what he can earn in fair professional competition; because society ought not to allow any other person to hinder him from endeavouring to earn in that manner as much as he can.

Have mankind been under a delusion in thinking that justice is a more sacred thing than policy, and that the latter ought only to be listened to after the former has been satisfied?

It has gone into 150 editions in Patagonia, where the editions are very large, and ought to be in great demand in this country.

It is deplorable to think how much the mind is influenced by internal circumstances which ought to have nothing to do with the spirit.

The present inhabitants ought to take comfort from this reflection, but they do not.

We ought to have the best medical advice.'

I ought to have spoken about it to you before; but the subject is a delicate one.

I'll read you the act as it stands, and then tell you how I think it ought to be altered.

Tell me all.' 'He said that you ought to have a changethat you should go south somewhere.'

'And you agree with him that I ought to go away?' 'Is he not the best judge?the doctor's orders!'

" "If people have a certain position, they ought to make up their minds to the duties of their position, whether they are called to them or not.

I ought to keep both eyes tight shut so that I may be contented in that station to which it has pleased God to call me.

Yet she ought to know; for he was Jasper's laboratory servantat

It is very neat and pretty; but they really treat the poor girls as if they ought to be thankful for permission to exist.

"] "And if there be no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected.

and, if convicted of no other crime, though the loyal Brotherhood must and ought to disown his rebellion, and give no umbrage or ground of political jealousy to the government for the time being, they cannot expel him from the lodge, and his relation to it remains indefeasible" The lodge can, therefore, take no cognizance of religious or political offenses.

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