He had a great mind to vow never to consent to his daughter's marrying such an overbearing, pragmatical fellow; she ought to be ashamed of even thinking of him, when he was no better than her brother's murderer.
She ought to have been the poor girl's defender, not her enemy: she ought to go down on her knees and ask pardon of her.
She ought to have a double-gilt pestle and mortar to her coach.
Then,' said Cherry, 'she ought to try and learn, and not to be awkward because of obedience.
These selfish people are treating my poor Alda most cruelly among them; and Felix must go and fetch her home to be married from her own brother's house as she ought to be.
She ought to have been there to share his pang and his pleasure; they had so long enjoyed everything together that without her he felt unable to get out of either emotion all there was in it.
She wondered if she ought to tell him about his handkerchief; but she remembered in time that she had left it in Miss Triscoe's keeping.
She added as if she ought to excuse herself for neglecting an advantage that might have been hers if she had chosen, "I'm sorry one sees so little of the artistic and literary set.
But in her heart she drew nearer to him for the words she thought she ought to rebuke him for.
She had never cared much for the United States Senate, but she doubted if she ought to sit by when it was railed at as a rich man's club.
She ought not to have worn a chignon," answered Madame Nikolaeva, who had long ago made up her mind that if the elderly widower she was angling for married her, the wedding should be of the simplest.
She ought to have seen that Joel Mazarine was possessed of a jealousy as unreasoning as that of an animal; she ought to have discouraged Louise's kindnesses.
She ought to be plump; her pulses ought to beat hard; her cheeks ought to be rosy; she should walk with a spring and be strong and steady as a soldier on the march; but she is none of these things, can do none of these things.
Inasmuch as a girl has more confided to her keeping than a boy has, she ought to be so much the more watchful.
I have cited sufficient examples to urge that, if desire turns a girl to this or that occupation, she ought to seek it and follow it, provided, always, her judgment is as clear as her wish is ardent.
If she can do a nurse's work better than a teacher's, and if no home ties of an imperative nature restrain her, she ought to become a nurse.
If a girl can do most and best as a physician or surgeon, she ought to be always the doctor.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she ought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
