How to Use have in a Sentence
- Have they got a new car?
- Do they have a new car?
- We've got things to do.
- He had the newspaper right in his hand.
- She used to share a room with her sister, but now she has her own room.
- She has a red bike, and I have a blue one.
- She got another part-time job and now she has two jobs.
- I used to have a necklace like that, but I lost it.
- You can have it until I get back.
- I'm looking for the newspaper. Do you have it?
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That bet has a short shelf life.
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Shreyans Mehta,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Buzz, too, has wings that pop out.
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Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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Any team would be lucky to have him.
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Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Which new head coach could have the best run?
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Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Coral Gables has a lot of banks.
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Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Jalen Hurts has a new slot weapon.
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Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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Both teams have had one shot on goal, both saved.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
19 June 2026
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Ethan Dalumpines had the walk-off hit.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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The deal has a two part aspect.
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Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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The people used to have a say in this.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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In a way, the book has some phases.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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Oil prices may have to go higher again.
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David Goldman,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
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The Nuggets didn’t have enough time to make that up.
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
19 Mar. 2026
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Big dogs don’t have this option.
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Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Great to have around the dressing room, etc.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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Forst didn’t have enough payroll to work with.
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Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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At one point, fans had even bigger hopes.
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Zuri Primos
june 11,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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To have someone die for the courage of their faith.
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Amy Delaura,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 2025
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But hey, curling doesn’t even have that.
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Caleb Harris,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Feb. 2026
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How many pieces should a capsule wardrobe have?
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
19 June 2026
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These aren’t just nice-to-haves.
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Marc Serota,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Make a list of haves and have-nots.
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Kat McGowan,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2026
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Decide your must haves and your nice to haves.
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Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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These moments aren’t just nice-to-haves.
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Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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These aren't nice-to-haves anymore.
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Jaime Catmull,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Tourism and recreation aren’t just nice-to-haves here.
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Shane Weddle,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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Scroll on to shop these bug-blasting must haves and more!
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Casey Delbasso,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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If job loss comes from the have side, the impact is far greater.
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Scott Burns,
Dallas News,
9 Oct. 2020
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Will the ‘haves’ play nice with the ‘have-nots’ — and vice versa?
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Teddy Greenstein,
chicagotribune.com,
12 Sep. 2020
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This is not a problem of haves versus have-nots.
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Eric Snoey,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
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Add croissants to my already long list of must haves.
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Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
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Shop more of my travel must haves, below.
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Reece Andavolgyi,
InStyle,
29 Jan. 2026
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To be clear, this one isn’t a gotta-have-it contest.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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Besides that should-have, there were a couple could-haves.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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Even among the truly rich, there is a gap between the haves and the have-yachts.
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Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
18 July 2022
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And not as the gulf between the haves and have-nots expanded.
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Katie Johnston,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Jan. 2020
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Shoppers will buy the must haves for their kids, but the ‘nice-to-haves’ for themselves?
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Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Often, football is described as a game of haves and have-nots.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
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This is not a have-to, this is a want-to, um, this is not a financial have-to.
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Torie Bosch,
STAT,
13 June 2026
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Meta needs a web services business , just like the other three have.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
21 June 2026
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What seems like class warfare between haves and have-nots isn’t that simple.
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Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Apr. 2023
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Nearly three-quarters say that the gap between the haves and have-nots will be wider.
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Kate Julian,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2020
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The worry, though, is that these create a wider gap between the haves and have-nots.
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Quartz India,
11 Feb. 2020
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Audit logs and human checkpoints aren’t nice-to-haves.
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Steve Osler,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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There’s going to be a very sharp cut off between the haves and the have-nots of rainfall.
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Dave Epstein,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Sep. 2022
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Charles is from a well-to-do family, while the street crew workers are among the have-nots.
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Sandi Dolbee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Dec. 2021
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Even though the three have titles, and have had titles since birth, these titles are not used at school.
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Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
3 Sep. 2025
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Critics on the Right have for years said antifa activists pose a threat.
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Spencer Neale,
Washington Examiner,
1 June 2020
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Ownership of both is a must for the haves and a never-never land for the have-nots.
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Scott Burns,
Dallas News,
9 Oct. 2020
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The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year.
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Mike Schneider,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2019
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