Example sentences for: haves

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

  • 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.

  • 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 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."

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

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


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