Example sentences for: haves

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

  • 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."

  • But this reply only fuels concern that gradually, society will separate into "genetic haves and have nots."

  • 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.

  • The tension between the haves and the have-nots is supposed to destabilize the system, leading to--in Marx's view--a revolution of the proletariat.

  • At that time, civil war threatened to break out between the city-state’s “haves” and “have nots” (an expression from ancient Greece).


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