How to Use have in a Sentence

have

1 of 2 verb

• Have they got a new car?
• Do they have a new car?
• We've got things to do.
• He had the newspaper right in his hand.
• She used to share a room with her sister, but now she has her own room.
• She has a red bike, and I have a blue one.
• She got another part-time job and now she has two jobs.
• I used to have a necklace like that, but I lost it.
• You can have it until I get back.
• I'm looking for the newspaper. Do you have it?
• James Harden, who shot five for 13 from the field, had 17 points.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Baily Paul had two hits and scored a run to lead the Wildcats.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 3 June 2023
• The latest charges have a penalty of up to five years in prison.
  — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2023
• The passion each has for the game and for teammates resonates in the locker room.
  — Calvin Watkins The Dallas Morning News, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• Here is a look at what other changes chains have in mind.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• Well, the ex-royals still have their deal with Netflix.
  — Vulture, 27 June 2023
• The space was designed to have a moody, nostalgic feel to it (think dark wood and leather seats).
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Feb. 2024
• Joseph had his child in the front seat, and the man told him that wasn’t allowed, according to the police report.
  — Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• The right-wing media has more power to set the news agenda than the mainstream media.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• Right now Macy's has it on sale for $27, an $18 discount.
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• Before this year, the city had only ever had six such nights, and never more than two in a year.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The controversial new unis have a lighter feel that also have a look that is more, um, sheer.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2024
• Volle has a vineyard in Valvignères, which sits in the country’s Ardèche region.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
• In Georgia, which has a six-week ban, the first appointment can be done by telehealth.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
• These fish have a tendency to gyrate and just go crazy when trying to land them.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• Seasons 1 and 3, which had a resurgence in the previous window, did not return to the chart this week.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Some have diagonal stripes on the front and the Cleveland Browns wordmark on a side panel.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
• Jayden Cannon, who started in place of Mendez, had four points and grabbed four rebounds.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• Other nearby cities, like Mississauga, Vaughan, and Markham, have had stormwater charges for a long time.
  — David Cox, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2024
• According to a manager who still works at Boeing, the workers there have just one condition, a reference to three out of Boeing’s past four leaders who came from the house Jack Welch built.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024

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have

2 of 2 noun

• The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• Will the ‘haves’ play nice with the ‘have-nots’ — and vice versa?
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• Will the ‘haves’ play nice with the ‘have-nots’ — and vice versa?
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• Even among the truly rich, there is a gap between the haves and the have-yachts.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• If job loss comes from the have side, the impact is far greater.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2020
• The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year.
  — Mike Schneider, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• Buyers still have their lists of must-haves in a new house.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
• And not as the gulf between the haves and have-nots expanded.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• There’s a sharp divide between the haves and have nots.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• There’s going to be a very sharp cut off between the haves and the have-nots of rainfall.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• Tuesday night was a reminder of what the A’s have in Oakland.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2023
• Ownership of both is a must for the haves and a never-never land for the have-nots.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2020
• The worry, though, is that these create a wider gap between the haves and have-nots.
  — Quartz India, 11 Feb. 2020
• Charles is from a well-to-do family, while the street crew workers are among the have-nots.
  — Sandi Dolbee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• The two reports are just the latest signs that the virus is deepening the divide between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 5 June 2020
• Nearly three-quarters say that the gap between the haves and have-nots will be wider.
  — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2020
• In this season of giving, the haves are Santa Claus and the have-nots are the charity case.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021
• Sixty-five have died, and the virus has been confirmed in three-quarters of the state's 64 parishes.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Colleen Long, Houston Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2020
• The drug industry is now divided between the haves and the have-nots.
  — David Wainer, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2023
• Using the arts to drive tourism suggests that cities thrive when money trickles down from the haves to the have-nots.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 28 Sep. 2022
• From tie-dye to trench coats to chunky necklaces, get ahead of your 2020 style and shop these must-haves below.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 27 Dec. 2019
• But in the San Diego Section, the sport appears to be evolving into haves and have-nots.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2019
• The popular opinion is that Texas got tired of dragging around all the have-nots.
  — Dallas News, 20 June 2022
• Critics on the Right have for years said antifa activists pose a threat.
  — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2020
• My self-care slot took a backseat, as did my work-around-the-clock-and-still-have-time-to-volunteer slot.
  — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• The first season of the show focussed on class, and the conflicts that emerged between the haves and the have-nots at the White Lotus resort in Maui.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Especially when claiming to seek to narrow the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• So the difference between the haves and the have-nots to me is the fundamental problem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• But boycotts against the rom-com have, so far, been unsuccessful.
  — Haley Strack, National Review, 26 Nov. 2023
• Tome’s announcement marks the latest high-dollar biotech financing in what has become a market of haves and have-nots in the startup world.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024