Sentence examples for I ought not from inspiring English sources

She looked at the pastry tray "Perhaps I ought not take any.

It convinced me that I ought not to read any others.

As Niezsche adds, it is not really a case of  "I ought not to have done that".

The other value I derive from detailed lists is that they help clarify what I ought not to be focused on.

Peter exclaimed, "That is my father's story — and ours, too," and, according to Barfod, "recounted the details of the matter, which I ought not repeat here".

I ought not act in accordance with the maxim if it fails the test.So let's see: can I universalise the non-voting maxim?

I suppose I oughtn't to like it; but I do, very much.

I know I oughtn't to talk about your best friend, Fred, but that's a terrible woman.

"Well," the woman said, "I suppose I oughtn't to be driving".

When Fanny tells Edmund, "I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself," she makes the most proto-feminist statement in the novel.

"I'm sad, it ought not be," Mr. Dinkins said.