HAVE in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for HAVE, such as:

1. I don't have a bank account.
2. You have an air of authority.
3. You have to change your attitude.
4. I have many things to support me.
5. Elephants have a very tough hide.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
have
 v.  hold or maintain as a possession
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I have been glancing into some of the rooms.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  "Oh, let's have fun," she begged him.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  You must have gone to church once.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
4  'Come on have some lunch with me,' I sid.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  "We have wronged each other," answered he.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
6  What art can do, I have exhausted on him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
7  I have no such power as thou tellest me of.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
8  You have deeply and sorely repented.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
9  This is what I believe to have happened.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
10  You have no ambition, I well know.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
11  Her sufferings have been very severe.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
12  I have no pity for either of them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
13  I have known it these four months.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
14  I have many things to support me.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
15  The guns have been going since dark, about.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  I have never heard her pan anyone.
17  We have no choice but to arrive late.
18  You have to change your attitude.
19  You have an air of authority.
20  I don't have a bank account.
21  Drop across and have coffee sometime.
22  I have no doubts as to your ability.
23  I shall have a hot bath and go to bed.
24  Elephants have a very tough hide.
25  The rocks have eroded away over time.
26  I have never engaged in the drug trade.
27  We have an in-house training unit.
28  Nurses have several years of training.
29  You'll have to travel in disguise.
30  You can have it for a trial period.