How to Use have a go in a Sentence

have a go

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• Maybe that was enough to make the case that someone else should have a go.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
• Not one bit, if the mainstream media wants to have a go at you, right?
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 May 2023
• Treat this recipe as a principle, have a go, then why not come up with your own combos?
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
• And while most folks have a go-to recipe for peach or blackberry pie, a fig one may not be in their repertoires.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
• By the second day, a few dozen people had gathered around his table, eager to have a go.
  — Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
• Despite wearing heels, the duchess was more than game when offered a chance to have a go on a tall, winding slide in the play area.
  — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2022
• Hulu appears to be done with the property, so let Murray have a go.
  — Vulture, 5 July 2022
• The British royals were invited to have a go at this artisan craft.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Give your audience their own markers (or crayons) and encourage them to have a go at their own version.
  — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• If any of the links are missing or broken, feel free to make a note in the comments, but please also have a go at finding them yourself.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2012
• Nonetheless, Kanye will likely have a go of independence on his terms.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2022
• Upon returning to England, the two friends decided to have a go at it themselves.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• Captain and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was the first to have a go; quite explosively, too.
  — Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Ambassadors and Influencers will follow, and the sale opens to the general public after all three tiers have a go at the deals.
  — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 13 July 2026
• Later, have a go on the wave simulator, then dry out in the Treasure Island Arcade.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
• Just dive in and have a go – for example, pulling up various different reports for different time periods.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Each astronaut will have a go on the spacecraft's flywheel exercise device during their first full day in space, but getting in a quick workout is far from the day's main event.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2026
• This belief, a sort of curse of the mummy avant la lettre, did not encourage the average linguist to have a go at the Rosetta Stone.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• For the second time this season, Gordon refused to give way when a Newcastle team-mate had the temerity to suggest someone else might have a go.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
• Aside from as a fertilizer, wood ash has plenty of other uses around the garden—and our experts each have a go-to way to utilize the material in their own outdoor spaces.
  — Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 25 Feb. 2026
• Gas giant planets would be too far from the white dwarf and likely too cool to be bright enough to be imaged, although the JWST might be able to have a go.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
• Conor Schmidt asking his cat to have a go at FPL — and his cat ranking 222nd out of almost 13 million players.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• Inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte, who opened bubbly with his sabre in both victory and defeat, the hotel's bottle-chopping fun offers guests the chance to enjoy a free drink and even have a go at sabring.
  — Kari Wilkin, The Week Uk, theweek, 2 July 2024
• Maybe a pair of children or a particularly svelte, enamored couple might have a go at sharing the bed, but otherwise the Camp 2 might be more of a three-person than a proper four-sleeper.
  — New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024
• Their relationship is the inflection point for Down and Kay to really have a go at their targets as Yasmin taps into her inner Machiavelli.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
• Frank Martin were all instrumental in coming up with an idea where coaches would donate half of a salary to an athletic department to hire scholars who are people of color to have a go in athletic administration.
  — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2020
• Isaacman has suggested that paying that money, and losing Hubble, is the less-than-ideal alternative to his vision of letting Polaris have a go at extending Hubble's life.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 16 May 2024
• Fast forward one year and the good people of Gaydon have descended upon the Ritz Carlton in Palm Springs to allow Robb Report to have a go in the brand-new Vantage Roadster.
  — Robb Report Contributors, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2025