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:

  • A piece on the front page of the LAT bashes President Clinton's State of the Union promise to use $4 billion in government funds to bridge the so-called Digital Divide between wired haves and unwired have-nots.

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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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