Example sentences for: haves

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

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

  • 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.

  • The story goes on to quote two academics explaining that the results augur a new and widening inequity between "haves and have nots."

  • 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.


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