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Example sentences for "you ought"

  • You ought to return thanks in a neat speech,' the Red Queen said, frowning at Alice as she spoke.

  • You ought to have a wooden horse on wheels, that you ought!

  • I always used to think it was a regular palace, but, gosh, you ought to see places where I was asked to in San Francisco and around there.

  • He had a new clipped way of uttering his words: "Say, Pop, you ought to see the way the Frenchies farm!

  • You ought to seen some of those California houses.

  • You ought t'have seen, y'ought t'have seen.

  • That's a good songster; and with the cage, you ought to make him give you five dollars.

  • You ought to have fought that, Doc, sure.

  • They exchanged phrases, calling to each other from window to curb, their breath coming from their lips in faint puffs of vapor, their voices shrill, and raised to dominate the clamor of the waking street.

  • Yes, yes, I guess you're right," admitted Miss Baker.

  • McTeague grinned from ear to ear, looking around from one to another, exclaiming "Huh!

  • You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big beast like you, to bite a poor little dog!

  • Really," said the Scarecrow, "you ought to be ashamed of yourself for being such a humbug.

  • If you have," continued the Tin Woodman, "you ought to be glad, for it proves you have a heart.

  • Well, sir, you ought to know that we no longer have a police, since we are no longer at Paris.

  • Believe me, you ought now to take a rest.

  • This is private property, sir; you ought to know that.

  • So you ought to be, sir,' returned Mr Lillyvick; 'and I am glad to hear that you have enough of feeling left to be so.

  • You ought not to allow your feelings to influence you; it's not right, very far from it.

  • You ought to go down on your knees and beg everybody's pardon, that you ought.

  • You ought to think what he's done for YOU.

  • You shouldn't have--you ought to know better.

  • You ought to be able to make up for a lot o' lost time and a lot o' spilt milk when that woman takes herself out o' the way and lets you and all the rest of us alone.

  • You ought to have finished,' said the King.

  • You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

  • You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Raddle,' said the other little woman, who was no other than Mrs. Cluppins.

  • You ought to be ashamed of yourselves,' said the voice of Mr. Raddle, which appeared to proceed from beneath some distant bed-clothes.

  • That's just exactly the wery place vere you ought to have gone last night, Sir,' replied Mr. Weller.

  • You ought, Sir,' said the fat gentleman, in an awful voice.

  • We now know that Merlin said this for Fulke the son of Waryn, for each of you ought to understand of a surety how in the time of the King Arthur that was called the White Launde which is now named the White Town.

  • Ask her of me, and if you be such as you ought to be, I will give her to you.

  • You ought to see her, Mr. Yeobright, being a young man come from far, and with a little more to show for your years than most of us.

  • By George, you ought to have been in that galley, my girl!

  • I have thought of your sufferings that morning on which I parted from you; I know they were genuine, and they are as much as you ought to bear.

  • You ought to win some money, now that you've got them.

  • For a companion piece," said Miss Blanchard, "you ought to make a Judas.

  • There are two kinds of women--you ought to know it by this time--the safe and the unsafe.

  • In three words, if you are to be a sculptor, you ought to go to Rome and study the antique.

  • You ought to know, for he tells me you discovered him.

  • If you love me, you ought to promise to marry me.

  • You ought to have a little fellow-feeling there, Mary.

  • You're of age now; you ought to be saving for yourself.

  • When your brother began, you ought to have waited to see if he could not tell the story.

  • You ought to be obliged to me for telling you.

  • You ought to be on the spot, to go to England--you ought to go to America.

  • You ought to be ashamed of yourself the way you pan him.

  • If you haven't got any moral consideration for yourself, you ought to have some for your position in the community.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you ought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lead poisoning; rapid increase; you always; you don; you fellows; you knew; you need; you now; you only knew how; you put; you talk; you try; you used; you won; you wouldn; you young; young feller; young lion; young massa; young nobleman; your company; your head; your letters; your place; your power; your reverence