How to Use have-not in a Sentence

have-not

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And in an election year, with two presidential candidates who tend to further exacerbate an existing divide, a haves and have-nots housing market doesn’t help.
    Byalena Botros, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The explosion of tourism over the years, however, has strained natural resources and astronomically driven up the cost of living – dividing the haves and have-nots in ways that felt untenable even before the fire’s devastation.
    Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
  • England, however, has never tried to hide the fact that there was, is, and always has been a separation of haves and have-nots governed by toxic traditionalism, strict social strata, and fetishized notions of aristocracy.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In individual countries, the socioeconomic gap between the haves and have-nots is invariably, if unevenly, widening.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 June 2023

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