How to Use the haves in a Sentence

the haves

plural noun

• And that was just a contrast itself between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2023
• And locker room conflict — between the haves and have nots — will grow.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
• 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
• To look at the news in June was to think about safety, and the terrors of the ocean, and extreme division between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
• The yawing divide between the haves and the have-nots couldn’t be more apparent.
  — Susan Harley, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
• The gap between the haves and have nots has only gotten wider during the pandemic.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The money from these contracts goes back to the schools in the conferences, and can contribute to a growing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 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
• Instead, Bowlin chips away the private-equity varnish to reveal the chasm between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Longreads, 3 May 2024
• The report paints a picture of an industry bifurcated between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 26 June 2024
• Lately, even though the salary cap continues to climb as each team brings in more and more revenue, the disparity between the haves and the have nots is growing.
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
• There’s generally a wide gap between the haves and have nots with quarterbacks, and the Bears have figured that out by trial and a lot of error.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
• It’s been a story about how the haves take advantage of the have-nots and how Roy and others twisted religion to justify their abuses.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Poorer countries, however, are still struggling, resulting in an even bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
• As these results make clear, a failure to support public transportation expands the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, and literally dooms some folks to an early grave.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2024
• And many schools that aren't part of the major conferences may choose not to pay anything to any players at all, which could eventually open a competitive gulf between the haves and the have nots.
  — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 24 May 2024
• The ever-escalating income gap across the industry has exacerbated a divide between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• 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
• There’s talk of fascism and rebellion and the haves screwing over the have-nots, an ongoing franchise preoccupation that only seems more urgent right now.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 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
• In an ostensibly communist country, the current health crisis underscores the disparity between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Lynette H. Ong, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 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
• Glasgow a century ago was a brutally violent city starkly divided between the haves and the have-nots; in the course of their police work, Dreghorn and McDaid dodge blades, fists, bottles, even cauldrons of boiling soup.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Tilly enjoyed the thirst shared between those two groups in particular: the haves dangling their opportunities tantalizingly before the have-nots.
  — Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024