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:

  • While satellite technology has increased the sport's reach, U.S. domination of its every aspect has increased basketball's appeal among the capitalist underclass, the have-nots who see and crave the trappings.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Previously, it had generally been held that non-proliferation could be secured via providing for the security needs of the nuclear have-nots, but, says Rosenfeld, India and Pakistan didn't really build their bombs to address security concerns.


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