Sentence examples for ought to which from inspiring English sources

The actor Billy Dee Williams, one of the M.C.'s, told him backstage that he ought to, which irritated him.

Overall the show has an uneven pace, a halting quality that makes it feel longer than it ought to, which is partly the fault of the script.

"We are doing what a newspaper ought to do, which is to take positions.

His reply, Nause said, was, "Well, there ought to be," which did not come across as magnanimous as it sounds.

In turn, they are more economically suspicious of us than they ought to be, which cements a negative dynamic into place.

Figures on membership are less reliable than they ought to be, which in itself is an indicator of how loose party organisation now is.

There are things we ought to do which do not correspond to the obligations we have as the correlates of rights.

"They automatically come in there — the old guy, they ought to play — which is far from the truth, as you could imagine.

"I thought the speech was something Americans ought to embrace, which was equal rights for every person in this country," he said, to much audience applause.

… This ought to affect unemployment, which will affect confidence and the forward-looking outlook for earnings.

This is (quite obviously) because, at some point, everyone decided that music ought to be free, which is probably correct.