How to Use have (got) to go in a Sentence

have (got) to go

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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
  • No one should have to go out to find the rest of their loved one.
    Stacy Lambe, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • That's a learning curve that all young founders have to go up.
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • What about our sons that are going to have to go off to war at some point.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
  • And most times those things have to go to the payment center.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Imagine having a wife and child who have to go through the same thing.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • At some point, some or all of this debt will come due, and taxes will have to go up.
    David Rae, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Belle also didn’t have to go in and out of torture rooms all day, so.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • There's a lot of steps that have to go perfectly right for all that to work.
    CBS News, 2 June 2024
  • Just being able to get up and not have to go and do this job out of the state here and there?
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 23 June 2025
  • 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
  • If one of those amendments should pass, the bill would have to go back to the House.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • Looking for something to do before the kids have to go back to school?
    Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
  • And make sure the next Duolingo doesn’t have to go transatlantic to find cash.
    Zoya Hasan, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • A lot would have to go wrong for 2025 not to be a vintage year.
    Thomas Page, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
  • As for team names, the Texas team would have to go with the Texas Wedges.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The main thing any of us have to go on when choosing a project is the quality of the script.
    Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The resolutions would have to go to the full House for a vote.
    Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • And the data centers to handle all of that have to go somewhere.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 17 July 2025
  • The twist is that the first two teams eliminated have to go on a journey.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
  • To advance to the Elite Eight and beyond, most things have to go right.
    Tobias Bass, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon — wouldn’t that be terrible?
    Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The kind of person who might have to go to Panorama City for a restaurant.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Maine and other states will have to go through the bidding process with ISPs again due to the overhaul.
    ArsTechnica, 12 June 2025

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