Synonym: must, should. Similar words: bought, ought to, brought, drought, a thought, through to, forethought, deep in thought. Meaning: [ɔːt] 
verb.1. (used to express duty or moral obligation): Every citizen ought to help. 2. (used to express justice, moral rightness, or the like): He ought to be punished. You ought to be ashamed. 3. (used to express propriety, appropriateness, etc.): You ought to be home early. We ought to bring her some flowers. 4. (used to express probability or natural consequence): That ought to be our train now. n. 5. duty or obligation..
verb.1. (used to express duty or moral obligation): Every citizen ought to help. 2. (used to express justice, moral rightness, or the like): He ought to be punished. You ought to be ashamed. 3. (used to express propriety, appropriateness, etc.): You ought to be home early. We ought to bring her some flowers. 4. (used to express probability or natural consequence): That ought to be our train now. n. 5. duty or obligation.. 
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121 She ought to have waited for a decent interval before getting married again.
122 "I ought to reconsider her offer to move in," he mused.
123 I ought to seal the boxes up. I don't want the books falling out.
124 If you're passing blood you ought to see a doctor.
125 "They ought to be birched,(www.Sentencedict.com) " growled the old man.
126 The company ought to be making changes in its marketing strategy.
127 You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You've created this problem.
128 We ought to look below the surface of things and then uncover the essence of them.
129 He left two hours ago, so he ought to be there by now.
130 You ought to have come to the meeting. It was interesting.
131 I think he ought to be at the right hand of the president.
132 The wishes of 20 million people ought to prevail against those of 200 thousand.
133 The first verb in the following sentence is a modal: We ought to pay the gas bill.
134 I felt I ought to show my face at her father's funeral.
135 "This ought to be fun," he told Alex, eyes gleaming with an almost unholy relish.
136 There ought to be a note on this obsolete word.
137 You ought to improve your English before going to work in America.
138 The salaries of temporary employees ought to be brought into line with those of permanent staff.
139 If he started at nine, he ought to be here by now.
140 He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. Aesop 
141 A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. Thomas Paine
142 The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. Oscar Wilde
143 A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. Hippocrates
144 They will never love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. Edmund Burke
145 Violence is not the monopoly of the exploiters and as such the exploited can use it too and, moreover, ought to use it when the moment arrives. Che Guevara
146 Life is what it is, not what it ought to be. The way life works does not require our approval. Those who ignore the laws of life pay a heavy price. Dr T.P.Chia
147 I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. Galileo Galilei
148 The most difficult thing to do is to control your desires - you should ask yourself what you ought to desire. Dr T.P.Chia
149 Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
150 In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate. Rene Descartes
More similar words: bought, ought to, brought, drought, a thought, through to, forethought, deep in thought, at the thought of, dough, rough, bough, tough, though, enough, borough, roughly, through, go through, thorough, although, as though, toughness, all through, get through, throughout, fall through, come through, cut through, even though.