How to Use have to in a Sentence

have to

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  • Plus your children will not have to go through the tedious process of obtaining a visa.
    Nathalie Goldstein, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In some parts of the state, residents have to drive over an hour to give birth, to get emergency care or get specialty care, Starbuck said.
    Claire Murashima, NPR, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Each episode from the social series will include clues viewers will have to watch out for in order to uncover the villain who stole Halloween.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Soo will have to fight his way back on Last Chance Kitchen — again!
    Buddha Lo, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • By the time the evening rush starts, the sun is still high at 4 p.m. Societal norms have to change.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • This new era of Sublime doesn’t have to be for them, but that is not what this is about.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Northfield is going to have to dig itself out of a hole for the second straight game.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • With the Standard package, members still have to pay $35 per lounge visit and $35 to bring in a guest.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
  • After a lifetime of making out like bandits, the rich have to make do.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And what did this—business—between them have to do with safety?
    Graham Swift, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Yet future courts wouldn't have to strain too hard to deviate from this view.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • No fan should ever have to be involved in anything like this.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Women in the Southeast may have to travel as far as Virginia for care.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Soon younger Elliott opens herself up to what her future self might have to show her about life and love.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
  • Low seeds: Star closers have to leave after seventh inning to beat the traffic.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Someday, that won’t be the case, and public chargers will have to fill in the gaps for people who live in apartments or park on the street.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Grab your favorite snack, get comfortable, and settle in to have to your mind blown.
    Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Just how dire would things have to get before these supporters sell their shares?
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
  • And Jim shouldn’t have to be making movies about how terrible the industry is over and over and over again.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
  • In short, Salt Lake City might have to gain in some ways and give up ground in others to become another Austin.
    Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • For instance, contenders have to have some level of support in polls.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 10 July 2023
  • The court’s deadline was based on guidance from state officials about when a map would have to be ready in time for next year’s elections.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 22 July 2023
  • Michael didn’t have to propose new legislation or start a court fight.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
  • When a horse is so far ahead of the rest of the field that the outcome of the race is no longer in doubt, the jockey does not even have to lift the reins to urge his or her mount forward and wins hands down.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
  • The causes have to do with a long-term shift in the nature of movie viewing—largely, the dwindling of the suspension of disbelief.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
  • To allege infringement, the artists will have to establish that their works were copied to train AI systems.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But bags have to be functional for our women—no micro styles.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Certain things have to be done in certain order to make certain that folks don't get displaced all over again.
    Mark Nichols, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And the person who takes over from Stuber will have to decide what role Netflix plans to play in a fast-moving movie business.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Lake will have to win over the Republicans and independents who were leery of her two years ago.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 23 Mar. 2024

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