How to Use have-not in a Sentence

have-not

noun

• Speaking of the haves and have-nots, NBC has set up a caste system where not all sports are created equal.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
• Still, most of the haves and have-nots probably won’t change much in its waning weeks.
  — Ian Livingston, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• The chasm between the haves and have-nots is about to become more profound than any time in the history of the sport.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
• What seems like class warfare between haves and have-nots isn’t that simple.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2023
• At that point, there will be more have-nots than haves in major college football.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
• Then came the dissolution of the Southwest Conference, casting the league’s have-nots to the wind.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
• The toll of the pandemic and climate change keep exposing, in ways big and small, the grim inequities between the world’s haves and have-nots.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• In my perspective, the real fear isn't AI itself but the fear of being sorted into a class of the haves and have-nots.
  — Cheryl Goodman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• And this situation is widening the divide between the haves and have-nots.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• This might ruffle some fan feathers, but Palmera City does a good job of showing the division between the haves and have-nots.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• The nation of grinding hardship has increasingly become one of haves and have-nots.
  — Jeanna Smialek Chris Buckley Adriana Loureiro Fernandez Christine Hauser, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Today, this sense of haves versus have-nots is starting to create a caste system that can make everyone feel bad.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 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
• Sternlicht argued this is evidence the office sector will be split into haves and have-nots in the coming years—and many have-nots may go out of business.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• The Aztecs need to continue positioning themselves to be more attractive to the biggest brokers in football as the gulf between the haves and have-nots widens by the hour.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
• And so David was buffeted by forces beyond his control, in a world divided between first sons and younger sons, between haves and have-nots.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Did in-class computing solve the divide between technology haves and have-nots?
  — Jessica A. Stansbury, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
• Where Squid Game aimed to show us the human souls ground up by this inhumane hierarchy of haves and have-nots, The Challenge seems only to want to reaffirm that, yep, people can be real assholes.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
• There’s already a gulf opening in society between the technological haves and have-nots.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• The ballooning value of property in America is exacerbating the gap between the haves and have-nots.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
• To understand the chasm between programs like Oakland’s and Kentucky’s, consider the newest measure that separates the haves and have-nots: name, image and likeness funds.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• The division between the technological haves and have-nots will only continue to grow.
  — Naomi Alderman, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
• The franchise has so much tradition (four World Series titles and a bunch of Hall of Famers) and devised a blueprint for how small-market teams could compete in a baseball landscape that dismisses its have-nots.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Will the extra millions go primarily to larger tournaments, creating an even larger chasm between the haves and have-nots?
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
• While the topic was the dress code at a fine dining restaurant in Akron, comments from around the world reflected a social divide between liberals and conservatives, haves and have-nots, and angry folks with a gripe to air.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• Homeowners, first-time homebuyers, and renters But the mortgage market has also split into haves and have-nots, in Bachman’s words—and longtime homeowners are coming out on top.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• This disruption of rural society caused bitter conflicts between the emerging classes of haves and have-nots that in places manifested as witch hunts.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• Take for example the slapstick shot of Maxine scaling the back wall of the resort right in the show’s opening moments — giving a literal representation to the separation between the haves and have-nots.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024
• Subsequently at school all students receive nourishment from sitting together at the lunch table to break bread as equal peers, with no distinction between haves and have-nots.
  — Nick Gauthier, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2024
• But behind their prosperity is a workforce divided into haves and have-nots, based on their employment status.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 5 July 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024