How to Use have-not in a Sentence

have-not

noun
  • There are haves and have-nots, and the haves usually win.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 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
  • In his worldview, there are hereditary haves and have-nots.
    — Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
  • What seems like class warfare between haves and have-nots isn’t that simple.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Taylor Wilson: There's clearly a gap between the haves and have-nots.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • At that point, there will be more have-nots than haves in major college football.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Warriors were example No. 1 about the big-spending teams driving a wedge between haves and have-nots.
    — Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 3 July 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
  • That left a landscape of haves and have-nots, with nearly 200 veteran free agents still unsigned.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Major League Baseball continues to see a growing disparity between the haves and have-nots of the 30 clubs.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Ultimately, the perennial haves and have-nots will always be a factor too.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Did in-class computing solve the divide between technology haves and have-nots?
    — Jessica A. Stansbury, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This piece requires a deeper explanation, one that reaches deep into the sport’s history of haves and have-nots.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Vouchers that direct public dollars to private schools lead to even worse academic outcomes and increase gaps between the haves and have-nots.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Listen to this article America is currently at war with itself over who constitutes the haves and have-nots, and what ethnic groups have faced the most discrimination.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025

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