How to Use might/should have known in a Sentence

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• And the gun sellers knew or should have known that these guns would lead to gut-wrenching murder.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 18 July 2023
• With the Sinaitic teachings and the Tabernacle in place, the Jews should have known better than to falter again.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2024
• The sheriff’s office did not say how the 10-year-old suspect and the victim might have known each other.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2024
• But the idea that Tex McIver should have known better was about to become a central and recurring theme for the 75-year-old lawyer.
  — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
• But, at the same time…someone should have known that there was a possibility that someone would say that.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
• The format was impossible and CNN’s bosses should have known that.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
• The new rules make clear that drones can't be exported if the exporter knows − or should have known − the drones could be used for military purposes.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• The lawsuit also says that other coaches on the basketball team should have known what was going on.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Whether Shiv should have known better is a question Succession dances around quite often.
  — Vulture, 29 May 2023
• By now, the Angels should have known Ohtani well enough to understand that his desire to play, and win, overwhelms his every other instinct.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• If the case had gone to trial, the school district’s liability would have hinged on whether other employees of the school district could have or should have known about the abuse.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Waste management experts tell The Verge that a large company like Tesla should have known better.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
• Detectives pulled in drapes, dope addicts, drunks staggering out of bars, truck drivers, soldiers, school chums and anyone else who might have known her.
  — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2024
• The prosecution has very carefully pulled out a sliver of evidence from a forest of trees to try to convince that there was something wrong with Ethan and that his mom should have known.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2024
• Solon repeatedly used that as evidence that Harris should have known the AirPods weren’t hers because of the serial number.
  — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 10 Aug. 2023
• When asked how Cranston might have known the victim or the family, the official declined to comment, citing the pending investigation.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
• Walrod said teachers were generally frustrated by the email, but also found a bit of humor in the situation, joking that people should have known the gift cards weren’t real.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• Corrain should have known better than anyone not to underestimate the Reylo fandom.
  — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• The lawsuit contends that the doctors should have known the patient was too unstable to be transferred to radiology for a test to confirm abruption and that an emergency C-section should have been performed sooner.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2024
• Mayor Scott should have known better than to insinuate prejudice into the blistering citywide debate over squeegee workers’ rights in the aftermath of this already fraught and miserable tragedy.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
• The plaintiff and her attorney argued that Bucklew used his position to groom her, and that others at the school knew, or should have known, that Bucklew was developing the inappropriate relationship with his victim.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Even in 1963 Trevor-Roper should have known better than to utter such foolishness, but in the decades since, historians have demonstrated that not even his beloved history of Europe can be fully understood without the history of Africa.
  — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024