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Example sentences for "you should"

  • I wonder, Eliza, you should think of referring to that unfortunate person - you might know the mention of her would be anything but agreeable to any one here present.

  • You should try to suppress such foolish fondness, as well to save your son from ruin as yourself from ridicule.

  • For in so far as you should fail to fulfil my hopes of you, it is on me that the shame would fall.

  • I propose therefore that one of you should go home to Persia without loss of time, and explain what I need and bid them despatch an army forthwith, if they desire Persia to win the empire of Asia and the fruits thereof.

  • If you should be asked where we sold the group, mention the Duc d'Herouville, the famous collector in the Rue de Varenne.

  • Yes, you shall be mine, sooner or later; if you were fifty, you should still be my mistress.

  • During the time while we were driving her, I thought out my means of revenge, if you should prove to be right as concerns Valerie.

  • Deny the falsehood, Robin, as you should, It is a plot!

  • Why you don't rise til six and you're in bed again by five; you should have a turn at my work and see how you like that--out all night.

  • Consider, too, You're only second here -- you should be first.

  • The Prince May claim you; if He Might, you Could -- and if you Should, I Would!

  • You should learn to think of other people; and, take my word for it, it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  • And remember that, if you are ever so forward and clever yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn.

  • You should come to London to know how to estimate your conquest.

  • You should listen to me till you were tired, and advise me till you were still tired more; but it is impossible to put a hundredth part of my great mind on paper, so I will abstain altogether, and leave you to guess what you like.

  • But some of you spoil him; you should not worship him; you should worship no man.

  • I think, Sir, you should at least disavow such a publication, because the world and posterity might with much plausible foundation say, "Here is a volume which was publickly advertised and came out in Dr.

  • Why, Sir, when you are of consequence enough to oppose the practice of consulting upon Sunday, you should do it: but you may go now.

  • So, putting him to rage, You should have ta'en th' advantage of his choler And pass'd him unelected.

  • You should ask me what time o' day; there's no clock in the forest.

  • I know you are my eldest brother; and in the gentle condition of blood, you should so know me.

  • You should account me the more virtuous, that I have not been common in my love.

  • You should depend on your own efforts as far as possible, after these dreams, if you would secure contentment and full success.

  • If you should pass on a train, at the speed of two miles a minute, through a forest of flowers and trees, your mind would be unable to distinguish one flower or tree from another.

  • You should be warned by this dream to cultivate self-control.

  • You should be alert to every change of your affairs, for only in this way will your hopes be realized.

  • You should set up a tablet to commemorate it, in the wall of the Kursaal!

  • He is in a very false position; you should n't wish to see him in such a position.

  • You should n't speak of yourself as if you were not clever," said Mrs. Vivian.

  • If you do such things by accident, you should be more careful.

  • You should be more careful, you should be very careful.

  • If so be as there should be nothing in this present roof, you should be as welcome to your share on it as if it was something, much or little.

  • You should remember he has to teach you, so that you may pass for the navy.

  • You should know me at my worst, we will say, if you like, as well as at my best.

  • You should start a travelling circus," Willoughby rejoined.

  • For this is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same: 1:7.

  • And after they had fasted a long time, Paul standing forth in the midst of them, said: You should indeed, O ye men, have hearkened unto me and not have loosed from Crete and have gained this harm and loss.

  • Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

  • Besides, you should know it yourself by this time.

  • But if you should grow up to be a bad man, I must withhold these treasures from you and give them to your brother, for a medicine man must be a good and wise man.

  • At last he stopped behind a pretty Assiniboine maiden of good family and said: "I am sorry, but, according to custom, you should not be here.

  • You should know it by heart and gain a lesson from it," she replied.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you should" 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:
    community life; you again; you are very much; you didn; you forget; you get; you have been told; you may; you really; you see; you think; you would have thought; you wouldn; young creature; young friends; young gentlemen; young girl; young king; young lassie; young people; your business; your head; your obedient; your reverence; your royal; youth and