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Example Sentences

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You see that in something else Blackwell said on Tuesday: “Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign.”

From Slate

She wondered if she ought to be scared, and then she saw what it was.

From Literature

“Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all, is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign,” U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

If you say something is conservative, it ought not be liberal.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Maybe we ought to try that around Sassafras Springs.”

From Literature