How to Use have (got) to go in a Sentence
have (got) to go
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But did the two of you have to go to bat to keep that scene?
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
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Does the judge have to go along with the D.A.’s request?
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
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A lot of things have to go right to get me to that point.
—Olivia-Anne Cleary, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
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As for team names, the Texas team would have to go with the Texas Wedges.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
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Well, what about the guys that have to go back and fix your car?
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
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No one should have to go out to find the rest of their loved one.
—Stacy Lambe, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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The sound of pain that no mother should have to go through.
—Isobel Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
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But when the Fox folk have to go to court: Whaddathey got?
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
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If one of those amendments should pass, the bill would have to go back to the House.
—James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
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And guess who's going to have to go fight in those wars?
—CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
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And most times those things have to go to the payment center.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
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To advance to the Elite Eight and beyond, most things have to go right.
—Tobias Bass, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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That's a learning curve that all young founders have to go up.
—Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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The resolutions would have to go to the full House for a vote.
—Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 16 May 2024
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Imagine having a wife and child who have to go through the same thing.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
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A lot of phases of the game to have to go out there and play, our defense played well.
—Chris Vogt, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
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Do users have to go through hoops to find opt-out settings?
—Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 12 July 2024
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The main thing any of us have to go on when choosing a project is the quality of the script.
—Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
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What about our sons that are going to have to go off to war at some point.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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The Rams would have to go on a whale of a run to play themselves back into the picture.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
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There's a lot of steps that have to go perfectly right for all that to work.
—CBS News, 2 June 2024
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What power for Nathan Fielder to not have to go to a bar, but to have a bar come to him.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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The kind of person who might have to go to Panorama City for a restaurant.
—Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
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Belle also didn’t have to go in and out of torture rooms all day, so.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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Looking for something to do before the kids have to go back to school?
—Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
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What about all of the people that have to go to to the restaurant and make your food, and deliver your food?
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2023
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No family at all should have to go through that, at all.
—Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
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The twist is that the first two teams eliminated have to go on a journey.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
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As one of the host nations, the U.S. doesn’t have to go through qualifying.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
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No one should ever have to go through something like that.
—Emily Robertson, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2023
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