How to Use have to in a Sentence
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What does that have to do with the content and the ideas?
— Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024 -
New ways to track sleep don’t have to be source of stress, though.
— Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Oct. 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 -
To have to confront pride based on decades-old laurels.
— Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024 -
Now people have to be on a waitlist to have promised features?
— Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 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 -
Many people do not have that option and have to cook with fuel.
— Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 7 Nov. 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 -
Plus your children will not have to go through the tedious process of obtaining a visa.
— Nathalie Goldstein, Forbes, 23 Sep. 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 conversations don’t have to be the kind of high-level stuff Redick made a broadcasting career on the back of.
— Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024 -
This means the economic harm to the other country would have to come from fewer exports due to the higher prices.
— Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 -
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 -
An engagement ring does not have to have a diamond center stone.
— Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2024
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