Sentence examples for ought to lie from inspiring English sources

For another, they don't think journalists ought to lie.

I am getting tired now and ought to lie down before lunch, as my carer suggests.

Last month the two governments accepted a ruling from an independent commission on where the border ought to lie, but the rival armies remain dug in.

Others, already in public life, have been persuaded that they ought to lie, and conceal, and deny everything to the very point of being drummed out of office by a red-top campaign.

The future ought to lie with services and smaller companies, to which the government pays rather less attention.It would also be a good idea to encourage finance, even though the government has such a low opinion of banks.

What lies, or ought to lie, beneath the growth of creative writing as a subject is the conviction that a good deal of the best writing derives from conscious craft, if not all of it.

We probably ought to lay off these animals completely".

"You ought to lay off that cactus pudding, Tonto.

If there is a practical plan to do it, someone ought to lay it out.

I have to say, I don't know much about horses on steroids — I do think humans ought to lay off the bodybuilding variety — but at least racing should have a uniform rule.

When he gets up, he tells Sigmund that they should give her an offering, that they ought to lay silver on the stool before her.