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How to use oughtn't in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word oughtn't? Here are some examples.

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However, watching his story being told on celluloid, and appreciating it for the nobility of purpose at its core, that oughtn't to be too hard.
But I've actually seen commentators, left and right, arguing that they oughtn't to be advocating it.
Given the impact of one's decisions on a wider group of people, oughtn't government intervene to prevent that wider discommodity?
There was one truly disgraceful performance of the day which oughtn't pass without comment.
Maybe I oughtn't to let the voices inside my head take control.
But I mean we oughtn't to forget it takes a long time to unstitch the enmities of war.
I love him, and he loves me, and that ought to be enough, oughtn't it?
Accordingly, an effective way to keep sly felines out of places they oughtn't be is by using strong pulsating ultrasonic waves, inaudible to the human ear.
My opinion, of course, is that we oughtn't to legislate morality.
All lives be mattersome to him. Not a one oughtn't to be mattersome to us, same way.
And another thing, we'll give them these little old comic books, and little old story books off of some drugstore mantle that oughtn't to even be sold to make kindling wood out of, or fire out of.
But I don't smoke and you oughtn't to either.
The Assumption of Jeremy Corbyn oughtn't to surprise.
Examples from Classical Literature
He oughtn't even to be trusted with a sidearm, let alone five companies of armed soldiers.
I oughtn't to have let him have it, but, you see, I had the baby and had to help Luella.
But oughtn't these things be done by night, privily, as they should bury the dead?
Because if we was going so fast we ought to be past Illinois, oughtn't we?
We menfolk oughtn't to judge a poor woman too hardly, your Reverence.
I ought to get plenty of ideas for my modelling, oughtn't I, Nick?
You oughtn't to have funked telling your mother what you meant to do.
He instantly became aware of course that he oughtn't so to have expressed himself.
The editress oughtn't to be allowed to monopolize the chief parts!
Oughtn't Dawn to be woke up first and told to scoot out of that?
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