Sentence examples for ought to kill from inspiring English sources

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Oh, sometimes I think that I ought to kill you.

The thought came into his head that he ought to kill himself, but he couldn't muster the will.

Frustrated by such quick thinking, the officer shoved his gun in Granz's stomach and snarled, "I ought to kill you".

Aside from the troupe's famous exclamations -- like "woo-woo" and "nyuck-nyuck" -- 2ThumbZ Entertainment is making available such gems as Moe Howard, the leader, yelling, "You idiot, I ought to kill you" to replace the pre-packaged ring on cellphones.

Over a period of time, amid many messages of support, some trolls told her that she ought to kill herself because she was so ugly she was better off dead.

For example, on his first visit to Dr. Floyd, long before he would have had time to build up a legitimate antipathy to his supposed healer, Boxer's Mr. Wolfman shouts, "I ought to kill you, you dirty swindler!" -- an allusion to Dr. Freud's Wolf Man, who, seized by a sudden negative transference, blurted something similar to his doctor.

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There is no absolute rule, or side-constraint, that one ought never to kill another person, or that nations ought never to deploy lethal armed force in war.

"He would say, 'If it kills it, it ought to be killed.' " After a while, father and son often ventured out of the studio to draw the craggy rocks, twisted brambles, and towering evergreens along the wooded banks of the Brandywine.

If one ought to be instrumentally coherent as such, it would follow that one ought to intend to kill one's rival.

then we get the result that you ought to intend to kill your rival.

It does not follow that one ought to intend to kill one's rival.

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