Example sentences for: have-nots

How can you use “have-nots” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When all the candidates were asked about the "digital divide"--the notion that poor people and minorities are suffering from their lack of access to computers--McCain gave an answer that could have been Al Gore's, lauding efforts to connect schools and libraries to the Internet and decrying "the growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America."

  • The movie tracks four aging New Yorkers--two men, two women--through their lonely dating rituals, in the process depicting a universe of lusty, coupled-up haves and downcast, excluded have-nots, all viewed Rear Window -style through rectangular openings in the massive apartment houses in which they reside.

  • When I heard McCain's opening spiel about the 'growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America ' and his criticism of how Bush's tax cuts favor the rich, I had a slightly different take: McCain wants to be Bill Bradley's running mate."

  • "For everyone, that's why they're called 'have-nots.

  • What dissatisfied me about today's otherwise excellent Journal piece was the way it toggled between haves, have-somes, and have-nots, without acknowledging that riskiness is attractive to each group for very different reasons.


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