Shouldn is an English word starting with the letter S. With 10+ example sentences you'll see exactly how it works in context.
Using Shouldn
- In the example corpus, shouldn often appears in combinations such as: shouldn be, you shouldn, we shouldn.
Context around Shouldn
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shouldn
- In this selection, "shouldn" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, government, democracy and form stand out and add context to how "shouldn" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and he shouldn t go, and i shouldn t have, people shouldn, probably shouldn and shouldn get. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shouldn" sits close to words such as widespread, agenda and audio, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shouldn
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said: “We shouldn’t be selfish, we shouldn’t demand too much. (13 words)
Phyllis shouldn’t have enabled Adam and Nick shouldn’t have let Summer suffer. (14 words)
They shouldn’t have a political affiliation but if they do, you shouldn’t know what it is. (18 words)
It’s simple math; if men are equal to women and women are equal to men, then why shouldn’t a man who “marries” another man be accepted in society, and why shouldn’t a woman that “marries” a woman be accepted. (42 words)
He also denied telling her, as the complainant testified, that she shouldn't be concerned about sexually transmitted diseases because he "picks them young," or that she shouldn't worry about his girlfriend at the time finding out about it. (40 words)
Asked what he would say to the PM about independence, the First Minister said: “I’ll be saying that the Westminster Government shouldn’t be denying democracy, shouldn’t be denying the voice of the Scottish people. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
After I went on, I thought 'oh I shouldn't have said this and I shouldn't have said that'.
Asked what he would say to the PM about independence, the First Minister said: “I’ll be saying that the Westminster Government shouldn’t be denying democracy, shouldn’t be denying the voice of the Scottish people.
Large language models in their current form shouldn’t affect economic projections for next year and probably shouldn’t have a large effect on economic projections for the next decade.
She said that keeping your hair during cancer treatment shouldn’t be a “matter of geography”, adding that people living in Donegal or receiving treatment there “shouldn’t be at a disadvantage to other areas”.
Sure, Hayes looked good and shouldn’t be beating Balor who has a Title Match this week, but Hayes shouldn’t be losing either.
That much was borne out in an NBC News survey last week that showed 70% of respondents ¬saying Biden shouldn’t run and 60% saying Trump shouldn’t.
Darran Khorasani, defending told the court: “He shouldn’t have had it and didn’t know he shouldn’t have had it but that is not an excuse.
He also denied telling her, as the complainant testified, that she shouldn't be concerned about sexually transmitted diseases because he "picks them young," or that she shouldn't worry about his girlfriend at the time finding out about it.
Just like you shouldn’t chase trends in investing, you shouldn’t chase trends in your own life, either.
Even the authors of the study say the results shouldn’t be interpreted to mean masks shouldn’t be worn.
He said: “We shouldn’t be selfish, we shouldn’t demand too much.
If you don’t like the laws on the books, change them but it shouldn’t be up to prosecutors as to which laws we should and shouldn’t hold people accountable for.
The other is that those pixels shouldn’t in any way interfere with the camera’s function, meaning it shouldn’t discolor images that the sensor receives or prevent light from reaching it in the first place.
Boy Scouts shouldn’t get a merit badge for telling the truth, and United States senators shouldn’t get an award for passing appropriations bills.
I’m saying we shouldn’t do it, even if it was a positive, we shouldn’t do it.
It’s simple math; if men are equal to women and women are equal to men, then why shouldn’t a man who “marries” another man be accepted in society, and why shouldn’t a woman that “marries” a woman be accepted.
Phyllis shouldn’t have enabled Adam and Nick shouldn’t have let Summer suffer.
They shouldn’t have a political affiliation but if they do, you shouldn’t know what it is.
While you shouldn’t intentionally hook up with married men and he shouldn’t go there again it’s otherwise not his problem.
I am not saying that we shouldn’t value lived experience; I’m only saying that we shouldn’t be correlating experience or usefulness with age.
Phrases with shouldn
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with shouldn
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shouldn be 51×
- you shouldn 17×
- we shouldn 16×
- shouldn have 15×
- it shouldn 10×
- he shouldn 9×
- they shouldn 7×
- and shouldn 5×
- people shouldn 5×
- probably shouldn 3×