How to Use have-not in a Sentence

have-not

noun

• There are haves and have-nots, and the haves usually win.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
• Still, most of the haves and have-nots probably won’t change much in its waning weeks.
  — Ian Livingston, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• The chasm between the haves and have-nots is about to become more profound than any time in the history of the sport.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
• Will there be haves, who can afford to pay for a robotaxi and have-nots who are left with the bus?
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 18 May 2025
• In his worldview, there are hereditary haves and have-nots.
  — Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
• What seems like class warfare between haves and have-nots isn’t that simple.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2023
• Taylor Wilson: There's clearly a gap between the haves and have-nots.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• At that point, there will be more have-nots than haves in major college football.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
• Speaking of the haves and have-nots, NBC has set up a caste system where not all sports are created equal.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
• On the investment side, strong gains for housing and stocks are widening the have/have-not divide.
  — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
• Then came the dissolution of the Southwest Conference, casting the league’s have-nots to the wind.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
• The toll of the pandemic and climate change keep exposing, in ways big and small, the grim inequities between the world’s haves and have-nots.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• In my perspective, the real fear isn't AI itself but the fear of being sorted into a class of the haves and have-nots.
  — Cheryl Goodman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• And this situation is widening the divide between the haves and have-nots.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• The Warriors were example No. 1 about the big-spending teams driving a wedge between haves and have-nots.
  — Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 3 July 2024
• To some extent, millennial wealth is a story of haves and have-nots.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
• This might ruffle some fan feathers, but Palmera City does a good job of showing the division between the haves and have-nots.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• Based on the video game from Bethesda Game Studios, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 May 2025
• That gap in the spending patterns of the haves and have-nots is just one indication of how inequality is on the rise.
  — Iese Business School, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• That left a landscape of haves and have-nots, with nearly 200 veteran free agents still unsigned.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Investment gains widen the have/have-not divide This has been a year of rising personal wealth, with no signs of it abating.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2024
• In the rankings of happiness haves and have-nots, the U.S. dropped to its lowest ever spot at No. 24, continuing its decline from a peak of the 11th place over a decade ago.
  — Peter Guo, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2025
• The nation of grinding hardship has increasingly become one of haves and have-nots.
  — Jeanna Smialek Chris Buckley Adriana Loureiro Fernandez Christine Hauser, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Today, this sense of haves versus have-nots is starting to create a caste system that can make everyone feel bad.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Tome’s announcement marks the latest high-dollar biotech financing in what has become a market of haves and have-nots in the startup world.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 12 Dec. 2023
• Major League Baseball continues to see a growing disparity between the haves and have-nots of the 30 clubs.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• Behind the scenes, the information divide between baseball's haves and have-nots looks even larger as the talent divide on the field.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
• Sternlicht argued this is evidence the office sector will be split into haves and have-nots in the coming years—and many have-nots may go out of business.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• In the newest from the author of These Violent Delights, two virtual nations are embroiled in a war between haves and have-nots.
  — Rebecca Dazenbaker, People.com, 15 July 2025
• So that would be my biggest concern, is whether or not that financial gap between those that can afford it and those that can’t creates way too many haves and way too many have-nots.
  — Mitch Light, New York Times, 16 June 2025