How do you use Have in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like get or make, plus the exact meaning.
Have in a sentence
Related words
Have meaning
- To possess, own.
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
Synonyms of Have
Using Have
- The main meaning on this page is: To possess, own. | To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- Useful related words include: get, make, experience, receive.
- In the example corpus, have often appears in combinations such as: have been, we have, have to.
Context around Have
- Average sentence length in these examples: 33.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 18 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Have
- In this selection, "have" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 33.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, petitions, entreaties, french, got, tinder and guns stand out and add context to how "have" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include have and have not 1944 and and my have spoken about. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "have" sits close to words such as this, he and has, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with have
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They have the funds, they have the motive, they have the will, and they have the local knowledge. (18 words)
You have to have a molecular biologist; you have to have a laparoscopic specialists; and you have to have a reproductive endocrinologist. (22 words)
I have girl friends who have Tinder, I have boy friends who have Tinder, hell, some of my girl friends’ boyfriends have Tinder. (23 words)
But he told LBC Radio: “I just reckon we have got the very best people in this country and we have obviously got the best medical regulators, much better than the French have, much better than the Belgians have, much better than the Americans have. (45 words)
Every other developed nation has controls on gun ownership: you have to be trained, you have to keep your gun in a safe location locked up and unloaded, and you have to have a license just like you have to do for a car. (44 words)
I think I’d love to have kids and have my own family; it’s definitely something me and my have spoken about and whether or not we’d have a surrogate or we’d have them biologically or if we’d adopt. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
You have to have a molecular biologist; you have to have a laparoscopic specialists; and you have to have a reproductive endocrinologist.
Bogart and Bacall further To Have and Have Not Lauren Bacall rocketed to fame in To Have and Have Not (1944) Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming To Have and Have Not (1944), a loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel.
We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned; we have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came.
I think I’d love to have kids and have my own family; it’s definitely something me and my have spoken about and whether or not we’d have a surrogate or we’d have them biologically or if we’d adopt.
JustUs is my passion and we have loads of activities planned, we have more football coming, we have a choir starting, we have gym sessions starting and I have to go home and organise that.
But he told LBC Radio: “I just reckon we have got the very best people in this country and we have obviously got the best medical regulators, much better than the French have, much better than the Belgians have, much better than the Americans have.
They have guns and we have guns, they have cutlasses and we too have cutlasses but if trouble happens, it is we that you will hold responsible and you will not consider the bad deeds they have done to us.
A lot of people have been around as long as I have, but I don’t think there have been as many people who have been on top like I have.
Every other developed nation has controls on gun ownership: you have to be trained, you have to keep your gun in a safe location locked up and unloaded, and you have to have a license just like you have to do for a car.
I have girl friends who have Tinder, I have boy friends who have Tinder, hell, some of my girl friends’ boyfriends have Tinder.
Some Medicaid recipients have complained about changes that have meant some services have been reduced or eliminated and providers have charged that reimbursements have been delayed or denied.
We have been over in Barbuda on two occasions and what we have done is that we have asked people who have suffered damage to submit estimates to us and then we will have contractors to verify.
But I think it's not only Europe, we have in Norway, we have Mexico, we have Sydney, in this area where we have projects.
In the United States you have a statement, then you have legal norms – how they are written – then you have interpretation of the norms, and finally, you may have a legal judgment.
I think it’s clear… I have said before we have improved the squad with some of the players we have brought in, but we have lost starters.
People expect that the following year is going to be also a plus 5% that you have got a war, you have got inflation, people spend less money, buy less product, you expect have promotions, you don’t have promotions.
Remember, there is a system we have put in place, a tripartite leadership forum, where you have the party, you have the legislature and also the executive sitting periodically to harmonize things to have a focus for the nation.
So when you have solid operations, when you have very reactive teams who have been able to adapt the model to the business environment, which has been changing quite rapidly over the semester, but they have adapted quite in an impressive way.
They have a lot of young guys have who have been called up, but they don’t have a huge veteran presence, especially in the bullpen.
They have the funds, they have the motive, they have the will, and they have the local knowledge.
Common combinations with have
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- have been 76×
- we have 70×
- have to 50×
- they have 46×
- to have 45×
- analysts have 45×
- have rated 45×
- you have 43×
- have assigned 39×
- have given 38×