Sentence examples for ought to do something from inspiring English sources

Idiom

To be/feel up to doing something.

To be capable of or fit for something.

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After all he ought to do something.

"You ought to do something decent with your hair".

"I was horrified, and thought I ought to do something.

The president ought to do something to straighten it out.

We really ought to do something about this.

Someone ought to do something, and that someone might as well be me".

And then my agent was calling me, going, "You know, you ought to do something".

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So the question arises: Ought we to do something?

In other words, Kant may believe that it follows from the fact that we ought (morally) to do something that we can or are able to do it.

Hare as for Socrates it is impossible for a person to do one thing if he genuinely and in the fullest sense holds that he ought instead to do something else.

"In the 21st century, the idea is that we ought to be able to do something about colds and flus".

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