Sentence examples for when it should have from inspiring English sources

And why did it have to conform to music, when it should have been examining its own proper subject, movement?

It wigged when it should have wagged".

Sony remained tight-lipped when it should have been forthcoming.

Pinter's The Homecoming boiled when it should have simmered.

Too comfortable with the old bipolar world, it splurged cash when it should have imposed conditions, was stingy when it should have been generous and naive when it should have been tough.

It veered among three modes — satire, polemic, and vérité — when it should have stuck with one.

It wrote off $4 billion, when it should have booked record profits.

Italy's creaking pensions system has been shored up, when it should have been renovated.

The audience, at a moment when it should have felt fulfillment, broke into loud laughter.

Remove and leave to cool completely, when it should have absorbed all the syrup.

It was partisan and narrow when it should have been strategic and statesmanlike".