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Example sentences for "oughta"

Lexicographically close words:
ouertooke; ouerwhelmed; ouest; ough; ought; oughte; oughten; oughter; oughtest; oughts
  1. If they want a woman to learn their kids to read, they'd oughta give her a better place than the Whipple shack to keep school in.

  2. Might be possible that the ones that done the killing went back and had a burying--which they'd oughta have had at the time.

  3. It oughta help some," grinned Andy, when the Native Son came curiously over to see what it was they were erecting there on the prairie.

  4. I leave it to Chip if Andy hadn't oughta have first pick.

  5. You oughta make us a rate on it, seeing it's a cash sale, and big.

  6. You oughta be glad I saved your conscience that much of a load, anyway.

  7. Pink, here, claims I killed him twicet, whereas he oughta be left alive enough to jump on his horse and ride three hundred and fifty miles to fall dead in his best girl's arms.

  8. We made a darn good set of prints, just the same; boys, you oughta seen that picture!

  9. And it'll be a week afore he oughta use it.

  10. Sonny," counseled the other, "we'll savvy how we oughta behave after we see how the hull proposition strikes the bunch.

  11. You'd oughta seen the way she looked at you.

  12. I s'pose I'd oughta yell and warn him," finally Pinkey said, reluctantly.

  13. My pa say yuh mus' train up uh child in de way he oughta go en den effen dey stray 'way, dey sho' come back a'ter while.

  14. Marse Jeff Davis was all right, but him oughta got out and fought some, lak General Lee, General Jackson and 'Poleon Bonaparte.

  15. You oughta spoke up and told the judge just how it all happened.

  16. Tain't any job a man oughta tackle alone,' I says to him.

  17. That oughta be might' nigh all the evidence you need, Fred, if you find it.

  18. A feller that'll drink when he's got a wife like that had oughta be hung!

  19. I think it's another day we oughta be happy in, you and me.

  20. You jus' oughta hear me when I get started--" "Did you ever take a girl part?

  21. You'd oughta be a Baptis'," suggested Gizzard.

  22. I think we oughta make a list of season stuff and call on regular customers.

  23. We oughta say no person buy more than one of anything.

  24. Well, every man does things in his own way; but I 've been thinkin' he oughta have a chance.

  25. But you oughta label it, Jimmy," said Bill.

  26. You oughta feel frisky, after loafin' for two weeks an' walkin' for another.

  27. Turn me loose an' gimme a gun--I oughta have a chance!

  28. We oughta put four men in that 'dobe--" began Dad persistently.

  29. Blinky oughta have a good look at this layout.

  30. You oughta be glad it was n't a better gun, Kid.

  31. I oughta kill ye, an' everybody here knows it, but I'd hang for it.

  32. That's what we oughta be, seein' we're pretty near neighbours.

  33. You oughta thought o' that when you threw down on me," he lazily reminded the other.

  34. If there's a reason why Drew oughta be left alone I want to know it.

  35. But anybody with any savvy oughta know its different in a case like yours.

  36. You oughta see the way they work an' figure horses in the city.

  37. One man settin' down an' holdin his hands while another team drives outa its way doin what he oughta done.

  38. An' I oughta knock your block off for you.

  39. Prices oughta be lower in the country,' says the top-guy.

  40. It oughta come years ago," was Bert's dictum.

  41. They oughta hang like Chester Johnson, or else he oughtn't to hang.

  42. They oughta be a state law against lettin' such animals exist.

  43. Here's where I oughta ben all the time, or some place like it.

  44. But the way you drive you oughta be a whole lot further along than this," Billy criticized.

  45. What everybody oughta be is a connoisseur of chaos, like me.

  46. We oughta tell Sally he's no good and she oughta pick herself out a guy that'll amount to something some day.

  47. Cassidy, I oughta kill you," Jolly Roger was saying as he worked, an exultant chuckle in his voice.

  48. I oughta put you out of the way, and plant flowers over you, now that I've got the chance.

  49. Brit, he oughta know enough to rough-lock down that hill.

  50. Jim and Sorry oughta git the post holes all dug to-day.

  51. Over there in them rose-bushes you oughta find enough bresh.

  52. He oughta be home, where folks can look after him.

  53. They oughta be a bounty on 'en by rights.

  54. Yuh hadn't ought to uh done it--or else yuh oughta made a clean job of it sos't we could hang yuh proper.

  55. I reckon maybe that was my fault: I hadn't oughta pitched quite so hard, and I had oughta looked where I was throwin' m' rider.

  56. But we didn't do that, so you oughta apologize to Jo.

  57. An old desert rat like you oughta hit the bull's-eye every shot.

  58. It was lookin' to storm and we hadn't oughta gone maybe; but we didn't aim to make it far, and could come back any time.

  59. But he oughta be got to a constable or somethin'.

  60. You're the man for her, my boy--the only man I ever met that oughta have the nerve to try to win her.

  61. And he oughta see a coroner er somethin'.

  62. Then these settlers oughta help Ragtown some when spring comes along.

  63. I up an' told Tex straight out there'd oughta be another fellow with him, but all he done was to bawl me out an' tell me to mind my own business.

  64. It's got to be proved I ain't capable, or I've done somethin' I oughta be fired for.

  65. He oughta give me a coupla hundred for her, anyway.

  66. Oughta be in by morning, and then you keep your eye on Casey.

  67. And the man that made 'er sure oughta known better than to make 'er neck rein in harness.

  68. You oughta be on it, Casey," Bill said ominously.

  69. You oughta kept in the ruts, no matter if they are water-logged.

  70. I guess mebby I oughta take two or three--but I'm a little short right now, Bill.

  71. I guess no one thinks a feller oughta have any fun, either.

  72. We oughta stop runnin' these people out of town that misbehaves, and lock 'em up.

  73. SIMMS: When the folks misbehaves in this town I think they oughta lock 'em up in a jail and make 'em work their fine out on the streets, then these weeds would be cut down.

  74. SIMMS: (Continuing his argument) Now, when I pastored in Jacksonville you oughta see what kinda jails they got there.

  75. Everybody oughta live right, though you won't have no friends iffen you do.

  76. People oughta be religious sho'; what for they wanta live in sin and die and go to the Bad Man.


    77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oughta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.