Should Sentence Examples

She should wash them, but there wasn't time.

It should be ready now.

So, what should she pack?

Should he buy candy?

Connie should be here any minute.

I should have been checking it.

I should have been with them tonight.

You should have seen Dad's face.

Why should I envy them?

I should long ago have joined the archduke.

Maybe we should go home.

You should do like this.

Alex should have told you all this.

He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green.

What should the company do?

Why should we agree?

That is the way it should be, Mama says.

I should like very much to see her, said Pierre.

I should have anticipated this.

She should discuss all this with Alex.

It should have been an exciting discovery.

Well... Yancey, maybe you're the one I should be careful about.

We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.

If instead of a divine power some other force has appeared, it should be explained in what this new force consists, for the whole interest of history lies precisely in that force.

We should in fact have reached those two fundamentals of which man's whole outlook on the universe is constructed--the incomprehensible essence of life, and the laws defining that essence.

If it's something we simply can't afford, that's one thing, but we should be encouraging things like this, Alex.

One second more and I should have understood it all!

I should have come yesterday....

I should be sorry to leave the regiment.

She should probably listen to her gut feeling about this.

I should like them to meet here.

That should have been the end of it, right?

I am sure we should love each other.

In the village, outside the drink shop, another meeting was being held, which decided that the horses should be driven out into the woods and the carts should not be provided.

So the governor sent a messenger to Delphi to ask the oracle what should be done with the tripod.

And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me and Boris.

Should we let them go on or not?

You should wake the captain first.

He could not have said by what standard he judged what he should or should not do, but the standard was quite firm and definite in his own mind.

If I should squeeze one, there wouldn't be anything left of it.

If the bell rings, why should we run?

If they were truly soul mates, she should be in his corner all the way.

You should have seen her when he came in carrying a doll.

Why should we bother?

The French, retreating in 1812--though according to tactics they should have separated into detachments to defend themselves--congregated into a mass because the spirit of the army had so fallen that only the mass held the army together.

In the ancient world, man wanted guidance from the gods on what he should do.

What should he do?

Should I press him?

But "genius" and "originality" are words we should not use lightly.

He stood still a moment to look about him, and think what he should do first.

And I should be ashamed to write to Boris.

Why should that cause the masses to riot?

I should have known you would feel this way.

Every woman should have her princess moment, don't you think?

I should have stayed out of it.

You should not think so.

Since his appointment as general on duty he had always slept with his door open, giving orders that every messenger should be allowed to wake him up.

The establishment of this simple and obvious law should be enough.

I guess I should say thanks.

One thing you should know.

What should we do?

Who should I tell him called?

Maybe you should take up a hobby!

He should have just become a steam drill operator!

You should have seen how he said it!

Thus he stumbled on Bagovut's corps in a wood when it was already broad daylight, though the corps should long before have joined Orlov-Denisov.

He rode silently on his small gray horse, indolently answering suggestions that they should attack.

Oh, they should let that fine fellow Bonaparte loose--he'd knock all this nonsense out of them!

Yes, I should think...

They should be home any minute.

Maybe I should try it; like in memory of Annie.

Why should we expect that to change?

It requires knowing what you should do in a given situation.

That I should not exist...

I am not a man, that I should repay kindness with ingratitude!

In their rear, more than a mile from Mikulino where the forest came right up to the road, six Cossacks were posted to report if any fresh columns of French should show themselves.

All the profound plans about cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his army were like the plan of a market gardener who, when driving out of his garden a cow that had trampled down the beds he had planted, should run to the gate and hit the cow on the head.

He alone during the whole retreat insisted that battles, which were useless then, should not be fought, and that a new war should not be begun nor the frontiers of Russia crossed.

He pretends to fall into a swoon and says senseless things that should have ruined him.

As always happens in such cases rivalry sprang up as to which should get paid first, and those who like Mitenka held promissory notes given them as presents now became the most exacting of the creditors.

But he did forget himself once or twice within a twelvemonth, and then he would go and confess to his wife, and would again promise that this should really be the very last time.

I should have gone this morning, like I planned.

Should we bandage it?

I should have recorded your first reaction.

He laid out how doctors should conduct themselves professionally, how to record patient records, and even suggested matters of personal hygiene for physicians, right down to their fingernails.

If you are a wage earner, then you should love machines.

There was a period when intellectuals believed and spoke openly of the idea that the "breeding" of the "unfit" should be limited.

Why should I joke about it?

God forbid that you should make peace after all our sacrifices and such insane retreats!

Pierre's way led through side streets to the Povarskoy and from there to the church of St. Nicholas on the Arbat, where he had long before decided that the deed should be done.

But I should have guessed.

Perhaps I should shed a few pounds.

Funny you should ask.

We should totally go to war with them.

I thought how strange it was that such precious seeds of truth and wisdom should have fallen among the tares of ignorance and corruption.

Her father objected and said that no child of his should be deprived of his food on any account.

But it hardly seems possible that any mere words should convey to one who has never seen a mountain the faintest idea of its grandeur; and I don't see how any one is ever to know what impression she did receive, or the cause of her pleasure in what was told her about it.

But even suppose blood should flow.

I should think he has a score of them.

You should have gone on long ago, now you won't get there till evening.

Why should I kill him?

We should have attacked Napoleon in the center or on the right, and the engagement would have taken place on the twenty-fifth, in the position we intended and had fortified.

I tell you, Papa" (he smote himself on the breast as a general he had heard speaking had done, but Berg did it a trifle late for he should have struck his breast at the words "Russian army"), "I tell you frankly that we, the commanders, far from having to urge the men on or anything of that kind, could hardly restrain those... those... yes, those exploits of antique valor," he went on rapidly.

And on my honor, in spite of the cough I caught there, I should be ready to begin again.

Well, if you hadn't told me you were Russian, I should have wagered that you were Parisian!

Who would have said that I should be a soldier and a captain of dragoons in the service of Bonaparte, as we used to call him?

In spite of her one desire to see her brother as soon as possible, and her vexation that at the moment when all she wanted was to see him they should be trying to entertain her and pretending to admire her nephew, the princess noticed all that was going on around her and felt the necessity of submitting, for a time, to this new order of things which she had entered.

Some columns, supposing they had reached their destination, halted, piled arms, and settled down on the cold ground, but the majority marched all night and arrived at places where they evidently should not have been.

Denisov had Tikhon called and, having praised him for his activity, said a few words in the elder's presence about loyalty to the Tsar and the country and the hatred of the French that all sons of the fatherland should cherish.

All his life he had looked over the heads of the men around him, when he should have merely looked in front of him without straining his eyes.

There was now within him a judge who by some rule unknown to him decided what should or should not be done.

The first time he had recourse to his new judge was when a French prisoner, a colonel, came to him and, after talking a great deal about his exploits, concluded by making what amounted to a demand that Pierre should give him four thousand francs to send to his wife and children.

When he spoke of the execution he wanted to pass over the horrible details, but Natasha insisted that he should not omit anything.

But the once proud and shrewd rulers of France, feeling that their part is played out, are even more bewildered than he, and do not say the words they should have said to destroy him and retain their power.

For an order to be certainly executed, it is necessary that a man should order what can be executed.

To solve the question of how freedom and necessity are combined and what constitutes the essence of these two conceptions, the philosophy of history can and should follow a path contrary to that taken by other sciences.

In the first case, if inevitability were possible without freedom we should have reached a definition of inevitability by the laws of inevitability itself, that is, a mere form without content.

She shouldn't have encouraged Alex to come down here.

I guess because the only one who should be looking at it is my husband.

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything right there...

I should have known.

You should have stayed there with him, Adrienne.

I shouldn't have come out here.

But after the first time, I should have known.

And they asked what they should do about it.

So it was arranged that the boy should travel with a small company of merchants who were going to the same place.

Very seldom is that, "I should go to war to force others to my will."

Mr. Irons, a neighbour of theirs, was a good Latin scholar; it was arranged that I should study under him.

When I left New York the idea had become a fixed purpose; and it was decided that I should go to Cambridge.

Mr. Gilman had agreed that that year I should study mathematics principally.

I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen.

I should like to be at home on Christmas day.

Why, I should have to be a Cicero to talk like a Cicero!...

I pumped my fellow-prisoner as dry as I could, for fear I should never see him again; but at length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp.

Soon after he was let out to work at haying in a neighboring field, whither he went every day, and would not be back till noon; so he bade me good-day, saying that he doubted if he should see me again.

You should dismount, he said.

I should make too good a target for the French, besides I am afraid I should hardly be able to climb onto a horse.

But even if--imagining a man quite exempt from all influences, examining only his momentary action in the present, unevoked by any cause--we were to admit so infinitely small a remainder of inevitability as equaled zero, we should even then not have arrived at the conception of complete freedom in man, for a being uninfluenced by the external world, standing outside of time and independent of cause, is no longer a man.

You shouldn't change your goals simply because they don't fit into someone else's plans.

She ignored his implication that women should be punished like children.

But they shouldn't be doing this.

I shouldn't have flirted with him.

But don't you think you should tell Russ?

I should have moved away, but I couldn't stand to leave the ranch.

Do you think I should? he asked in a quaking voice.

Should I not fund elimination of the present strain?

Betsy suggested Howie should pay a visit to Mr. Merrill Cooms.

Our location should be within a couple of hours at the most from a city; not in the country, per se, perhaps a small town.

He should be able to deliver.

They should have kept looking.

We should just call the police.

Why should you be ashamed?

So it was decided that the boy should go to some school where he might be prepared for college.

When your country is in danger, you should forget your own safety.

He did not know whether he should take the right-hand fork or the left-hand.

I am not saying if you love digging ditches, you should do something else.

Once someone has something, no one should be able to take it from him or her.

Whether it is the notion of manufacturing meat or having the computer tell you what you should order at the restaurant, you may have cringed and thought, "Man, that's kind of creepy."

It should be said that any double-case watch with the crystal removed serves well enough for a blind person whose touch is sufficiently delicate to feel the position of the hands and not disturb or injure them.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing?

It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their power of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate themselves?

Why should we knock under and go with the stream?

Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

But why should I raise them?

When they called for the vessels again, I was green enough to return what bread I had left; but my comrade seized it, and said that I should lay that up for lunch or dinner.

Anna Mikhaylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, on condition that she should tell no one.

But to whom should I say that?

He thought that I should kill him.

No... Why should it be?

What sort of warrior should I make?

In that case we should probably have defended the Shevardino Redoubt--our left flank-- still more obstinately.

But I should like to see the right flank.

I should like to start from the Moskva River and ride round the whole position.

And should your Serene Highness require a man who will not spare his skin, please think of me....

That all this should still be, but no me....

They should be executed!

Learned military authorities quite seriously tell us that Kutuzov should have moved his army to the Kaluga road long before reaching Fili, and that somebody actually submitted such a proposal to him.

And as it always happens in contests of cunning that a stupid person gets the better of cleverer ones, Helene--having realized that the main object of all these words and all this trouble was, after converting her to Catholicism, to obtain money from her for Jesuit institutions (as to which she received indications)-before parting with her money insisted that the various operations necessary to free her from her husband should be performed.

It no longer seemed strange to them but on the contrary it seemed the only thing that could be done, just as a quarter of an hour before it had not seemed strange to anyone that the wounded should be left behind and the goods carted away but that had seemed the only thing to do.

As it was sealed up so it has remained, but Sophia Danilovna gave orders that if anyone should come from you they were to have the books.

And he had only one wish-- that the frightful thing that had to happen should happen quickly.

If I did not know you I should think you did not want what you are asking for.

And by bringing variously selected historic units (battles, campaigns, periods of war) into such equations, a series of numbers could be obtained in which certain laws should exist and might be discovered.

The tactical rule that an army should act in masses when attacking, and in smaller groups in retreat, unconsciously confirms the truth that the strength of an army depends on its spirit.

They understood that the saddles and Junot's spoon might be of some use, but that cold and hungry soldiers should have to stand and guard equally cold and hungry Russians who froze and lagged behind on the road (in which case the order was to shoot them) was not merely incomprehensible but revolting.

The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.

I too should wish nothing but to relive it all from the beginning.

For my action to be free it was necessary that it should encounter no obstacles.

So why should we listen to what they call normal?

Maybe he should see a doctor.

If Alex felt the need to protect her from Gerald, maybe she shouldn't be dancing with him.

I should have shown it to you in private - prepared you for it.

Alex should have been there to see that.

Alex didn't like any kind of discord, which generally meant that she shouldn't contest anything he said or did.

It was great news and she should have felt relieved.

Katie said she should confront him when he did that - tell him how it made her feel.

It shouldn't be any surprise, since that was what suffered when he had been troubled in the past.

Just because it upsets me doesn't mean I don't want to know - or that you shouldn't tell me.

It shouldn't make any difference if he's adopted.

Quint knew he should quell the ire that surged up and pounded in his neck.

Good, that should make this easier.

As she stared at the caskets she knew she should feel something – should cry.

She should shut the door, but her temper flared.

You mean I should try to cover up that which any man might find attractive.

Why shouldn't it have happened?

Well, maybe you should be - a little, anyway.

We should be congratulating them.

I guess I should stay here and study as well, but...

She should have been there for him.

Why should she leave it now?

Why should she give Brandon the chance to reject her again?

Kids think their parents should work two jobs to pay for their college education.

In no place does it say a woman shouldn't wear pants.

Not in so many words, but it says women shouldn't dress in men's clothing.

Davis should know such needless defense was embarrassing for her.

She should have accepted the rabbits.

Why should she care – and what did he have to gain by all this attention?

Funny you should mention that.

Did you see something today that we should know about, Bordeaux?

Marriage should be based on trust, and I'll never trust a man.

She shouldn't have blamed him last night.

Dad shouldn't have dragged you into this.

On the positive side, at that rate their conversation should be over by five minutes after nine.

I guess I should go to college and make something of myself.

She glanced around the kitchen, knowing she should familiarize herself before breakfast, but feeling uncomfortable about exploring so soon after her arrival.

Such beautiful things should be displayed in the rooms downstairs.

Should she ask him about putting them up?

I suppose I should modernize it, though.

No, that should be plenty of time.

If I want to sunbathe, I should buy appropriate clothing.

Should she walk away from this job?

I shouldn't let her get to me that way.

It shouldn't have - and it never would again.

It shouldn't make any difference, but it did.

Was he hinting that she should give more attention to the exterior of the house?

It's just that I should be doing this.

You shouldn't be cooped up with a sour old man every evening.

I should have thought about it before, but it's never too late to stop doing something you know is wrong.

Cade should accept the responsibility of his actions as well.

The baby was half his and he should be sharing equally in its financial needs.

Thought you should know.

Why should I remember a 'Get out of Jail Free' card and not recognize my own mother, or a picture of my father or sister; or this bratty cousin?

Maybe I should go down and apologize.

Quinn thinks I should mind my own business.

You should let him take a decent nap in our room and drop this silly business.

You should take notes in case we forget some detail.

I don't think we should.

The least we should do is come up with a fool proof way of giving a tip that can't be traced back to us!

I should have lied!

My husband has taken time away from school he shouldn't have and is pressuring me to do the same at the hospital.

Our small city should have a college and hospital.

Both felt we should keep our hands off the matter.

You don't think we should lay off for a while?

You brought our man closer to being identified than anyone else so you should kiss off any guilty feelings.

Maybe I should call him myself, just to make sure.

I should know; I get almost all of them.

Perhaps you should exercise caution yourself, Mr. Cooms.

This point should be non-negotiable.

To whom should I confess my blunder?

Julie, you should be talking to Howie, not me.

I suppose I should have tried to console her, but I was peeved.

Why should I feed the competition?

That's why we should all be out there.

Should I be concerned why you're concerned?

I shouldn't have been surprised.

Julie says I should just lie and say I don't know him and have no idea who he is.

I should be leaving for the police station in a few minutes.

If my wife was so sympathetic, shouldn't I be too?

Dr. Cohen says I should address the issue, whatever that means.

There isn't any reason he should, is there?

You said there were others the police should have questioned.

They say in all the manuals I never should do this on the phone but you deserve to be the first to know.

She looked petrified, as she should be!

Should I be fearful or subservient?

You shouldn't go either.

We should have it done by noon.

To be reminded first by a woman who should be dead and again by a Healer of some sort … He shook out his shoulders and nudged his XO awake, not wanting to deal with the thoughts.

My crystal ball doesn't work as well as it should.

Dusty didn't pry; she shouldn't have told him what she did.

You shouldn't do things like that.

Dusty should have given you a means of contacting someone in an emergency, he said with disapproval.

It should've been so simple.

It is the man who rose to go out, and two young princes contended for the honor of giving him his shoes but at last agreed that each should offer him one.

The rulers of the city met to decide what should be done with the corn.

If the magnitude and increasing complexity of these creations fails to impress you, the sheer quantity should suffice.

I wrote timidly, fearfully, but resolutely, urged on by my teacher, who knew that if I persevered, I should find my mental foothold again and get a grip on my faculties.

Before I entered college, however, it was thought best that I should study another year under Mr. Keith.

It was very beautiful; but the idle fairies were too much frightened at the mischief their disobedience had caused, to admire the beauty of the forest, and at once tried to hide themselves among the bushes, lest King Frost should come and punish them.

For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them--who were above such trifling.

The count," pointing to his portrait, "definitely demanded that he should be called."

And she knew I should notice it.

I should die of happiness!

But if I were right, I should be rendering a service to my Fatherland for which I am ready to die.

Boris said a few words to his general, and Count Bennigsen turned to Pierre and proposed that he should ride with him along the line.

Napoleon had assented and had given orders that news should be brought to him of the effect those batteries produced.

In that reunion of great sovereigns we should have discussed our interests like one family, and have rendered account to the peoples as clerk to master.

I should have demanded the freedom of all navigable rivers for everybody, that the seas should be common to all, and that the great standing armies should be reduced henceforth to mere guards for the sovereigns.

On returning to France, to the bosom of the great, strong, magnificent, peaceful, and glorious fatherland, I should have proclaimed her frontiers immutable; all future wars purely defensive, all aggrandizement antinational.

That marriage lacked the dual significance it should have had.

The sleeve of his coat kept slipping down and he always carefully rolled it up again with his left hand, as if it were most important that the sinewy white arm he was flourishing should be bare.

What for a long while specially surprised and delighted him were the women, young and healthy, without a dozen officers making up to each of them; women, too, who were pleased and flattered that a passing officer should joke with them.

His wrath, once expended, did not return, and blinking feebly he listened to excuses and self-justifications (Ermolov did not come to see him till the next day) and to the insistence of Bennigsen, Konovnitsyn, and Toll that the movement that had miscarried should be executed next day.

Sokolov, one of the soldiers in the shed with Pierre, was dying, and Pierre told the corporal that something should be done about him.

His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing.

In such a state of affairs, whatever your ultimate plans may be, the interest of Your Majesty's service demands that the army should be rallied at Smolensk and should first of all be freed from ineffectives, such as dismounted cavalry, unnecessary baggage, and artillery material that is no longer in proportion to the present forces.

What is surprising is that they should trouble about these things now when it can no longer be of interest to them.

Natasha asked quickly in a whisper, afraid to move lest she should rouse the dozing baby.

It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it.

In the second case, if freedom were possible without inevitability we should have arrived at unconditioned freedom beyond space, time, and cause, which by the fact of its being unconditioned and unlimited would be nothing, or mere content without form.

I'm the one who should be apologizing - for dragging you into this.

By the next day she was ready to resume her normal activities, but Sarah insisted it was Saturday and she should take some time to enjoy herself.

That's nice of you, but there should be more to a marriage than convenience.

She should push him away... yet she did nothing.

Cassie, your father should be the one to tell you this, but since you're not likely to give him the chance, I'll tell you.

Chasing after eight or ten kids should keep her busy.

People should get married because they want to spend the rest of their lives together, not because they've already shared a few nights.

You're the one who told me I shouldn't come out here in the first place.