Sentence examples for ought to get going from inspiring English sources

Idiom

From the get go.

If you are familiar with something from the get go, you are familiar with it from the beginning.

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"Now we ought to get going, Papa".

He nodded to everybody, picked up Miss Nalepa's luggage and threw several evening gowns over one arm, said that we ought to get going, and started downstairs.

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Mrs. Nicosia recalled: "She actually said to my son, which is so heart-breaking, 'Do you think we ought to go get canned goods?' ".

They'd look at Toyota coming at them from the bottom and say, You know, we ought to go get those buggers, and they'd send down a Chevette or a Pinto.

We'd had some coconut shrimp, and I said, 'I loved that coconut shrimp!' And she said, 'I did too!' And I said, 'We ought to go get some o' those!' And I went and picked her up, I went and got her.

This was just like saying that any Democrat who was internationalist and concerned with human rights ought to just get with the program; just go get "yours" and don't worry about the other guy.

But let's face it: If the Obama administration is going to be accused constantly of being "Nixonian," then by gum, they ought to at least go ahead and get Nixonian, if only for their own enjoyment.

Jeb blurted out, 'George got into Harvard.' After some thought, Dad said, 'Son, you ought to seriously consider going.

"He ought to just get rid of them".

These shifts ought to ensure Dell goes private as planned.

He ought to just let it go.

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