Sentence examples for ought we to be from inspiring English sources

So how ought we to be covering the costs?

Why, our countrymen wonder, ought we to be disturbed by our state's desire to know everything that everyone does?

If we are put on the spot when discussion turns to an unread or forgotten book, ought we to be embarrassed?

Just a few years earlier, Faraday had urged officials that they could not ignore the state of the Thames "with impunity; nor ought we to be surprised if, ere many years are over, a hot season give us sad proof of the folly of our carelessness".

But as for Jojo Moyes' novel, we are given to consider if we are who we ought to be, doing what we ought to be doing, seeing who and what we ought to be seeing.

Just as we ought not to torture, or ought to care for our children, we ought to be rationally coherent.

What we ought to be doing, we have several programs today, let's make it work.

And we ought to be reading the science, and we ought to be debating the science.

"His opinion doesn't matter, but the science does matter, and we ought to be reading the science, and we ought to be debating the science.

Mentally we aren't where we ought to be.

Our unrealistic expectation is that we ought to be better than we are.