must
IPA: mˈʌst
noun
- Something that is mandatory or required.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Alternative form of musth [A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads.]
verb
- (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
- (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- (modal auxiliary, defective) Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- (intransitive) To become musty.
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Examples of "must" in Sentences
- It must be the soap in the soapbox.
- Any objections must surely be based on prudery.
- You thunk it so it must be…….must be…..must be…WHAT?
- The annihilation of Jewry must be the necessary consequence.
- August 1, 2009 at 1:36 pm must resist……………..must………….resist.
- All reduplicants must be in the same tonal register as the base.
- The meal must be based on an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert.
- "We must warn Tom -- oh, we _must_ warn him somehow!" she gasped.
- The required pulverizer input material must be in a granulate form.
- The appeal must include the subject of the appeal and must be motivated.
- The FTO must provide remedial training for the trainee if it is necessary.
- Mike figured that Keku must -- absolutely _must_ -- have the king of hearts.
- This Act of God must completely prevent performance and must be unanticipated.
- In either case, the appeal must specify that the required presentment was made.
- But he must come back, he _must_ come back, her heart cried over and over again.
- You must have God with you behind the counter of your shop, or your office, and if God is to be there you _must speak_ the truth.
- The present Parliament, however called together, must consider itself the only legitimate, the only constitutional power: it _must_ look into this instrument of government.
- I must say, though, that most everyone around here is looking at me like we *must* be since I quit my job, all our friends are preggers or have babies and it's been two years of marriage...
- I recalled Speaker Weatherill's advice to the Select Committee on Members 'Interests that 'a Member must be vigilant that his actions do not tend to bring the House into disrepute' and, in particular, that Members who hold financial consultancies must not use their position improperly.
- Any attempt to stop the process of incubation, after the contagion has once been received within the body, or to prevent its being thrown out upon the surface, would destroy the patient's life: the morbid poison must be concocted, and it _must come away by being drawn to the skin as soon as possible_, to prevent its settling in the vital parts, and injuring them.