noun
definition
Property; possession
definition
Duty; place; office
Examples of ought in a Sentence
You ought to go out once in a while.
You ought to try it some time.
That ought to be a barrel of laughs!
I ought to get a public service medal.
That ought to be worth something.
This ought to do the trick.
Tell me, as you would a sister, what I ought to do.
A woman your age ought to be looking for a husband – or already married, not chasing all over creation in pants, trying to act like a man.
I figured you ought to know.
God, you ought to hear him moaning in his sleep!
I suppose I ought to thank you.
He had that common sense of a matter-of- fact man which showed him what he ought to do.
That ought to count for something, give us a little leeway.
I think there ought to be some better way of moving a boat.
Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.
Remember no one ought to interfere in such matters!
Pierre wished to say that he was ready to sacrifice his money, his serfs, or himself, only one ought to know the state of affairs in order to be able to improve it, but he was unable to speak.
And I know what marriage ought not to be!
His health was better in the winter, but last spring his wound reopened and the doctor said he ought to go away for a cure.
Animals ought not to talk.
I will invite two or three people, and if he does not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair--yes, my affair.
What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not.
Ought the British legislature to continue to favor their designs and their plans?
Her vocabulary has all the phrases that other people use, and the explanation of it, and the reasonableness of it ought to be evident by this time.
Dean figured he ought to say something.
We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously.
If we're going to host ice climbers, we ought to know something about their sport.
It ought to be noted, however, that Matt.
I will show you how a messenger ought to behave.
Vera, having decided in her own mind that Pierre ought to be entertained with conversation about the French embassy, at once began accordingly.
They allegorized the Eucharist and explained away the bread and wine of which Jesus said to His apostles, "Take, eat and drink," as mere words of Christ, and denied that we ought to offer bread and wine as a sacrifice.
The Dialogues ought here to conclude.
Morel, pointing to his shoulders, tried to impress on the soldiers the fact that Ramballe was an officer and ought to be warmed.
He felt Ryland ought to at least be warned.
As described above, it ought rather to be called, in Kant's phrase, the metaphysic of ethics.
When all or any of the works aforesaid have been executed in the street, and the council are of opinion that the street ought to become a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large, they may by notice to be fixed up in the street declare it to be a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large, and the declaration will be effective unless, within one month after the notice has been put up, the majority of the owners in the street object thereto.
He propounds as the comprehensive formula of the new Christianity this precept - "The whole of society ought to strive towards the amelioration of the moral and physical existence of the poorest class; society ought to organize itself in the way best adapted for attaining this end."
Fred, you ought to write your mystery books, not just read them.
At the same time he states that authors who have occupied themselves with the sternum alone have often produced uncertain results, especially when they have neglected its anterior for its posterior part; for in truth every bone of the skeleton ought to be studied in all its details.
As an eminent French critic (General Bonnal) says, this was but to repeat Frederick the Great's manoeuvre at Kolin, and, the Austrians being where they actually were and not where Moltke decided they ought to be, the result might have been equally disastrous.
The first clinical laboratory seems to have been that of Von Ziemssen (1829-1902) at Munich, founded in 1885; and, although his example has not yet been followed as it ought to have been, enough has been done in this way, at Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere, to prove the vital importance of the system to the progress of modern medicine.
It ought also to be mentioned that there was a greater accumulation of impedimenta at Helles than there had been at either Anzac or Suvla, so that even if the weather were to remain favourable, it was certain that material of great value would have to be destroyed to prevent its falling into the enemy's hands.
One legacy that ought to be briefly noted here is that of disputed land grants.
They held "that no church ought to challenge any prerogative over any other"; and that "the magistrate is not to meddle with religion, or matters of conscience nor compel men to this or that form of religion."
Special mention ought to be made of the Sraosha (Srosh) Yasht (57), the prayer to fire (62), and the great liturgy for the sacrifice to divinities of the water (63-69).
Baptism conveys the forgiveness of sins, and therefore ought to result in freedom from all wilful sin.
It included, as was natural enough in a warm admirer of Montesquieu, a fragment on law, of which he justly said that it ought to be the leading science in every well-ordered commonwealth.
They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me.
Only when Prince Andrew was gone did Rostov think of what he ought to have said.
Ney, who had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, joined him with 6000 men on the 14th of March; and five days later the emperor entered the capital, whence Louis XVIII.