gotta have

Example Sentences

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It means if you go to Kenny Chesney, you gotta have the hat — the girls have to have the cut-offs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

Of his own ejection in the fourth quarter, Lee added: "I gotta have a little bit better emotional control in that moment."

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Yet the lesson White House adviser Stephen Miller seems to have taken from border success is akin to Christopher Walken’s in the famous SNL skit: “I gotta have more cowbell.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

"You've got the pressure of 'we've gotta have some bangers here, we're in the pop industry'," she says.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

“Yeah, I’m hip, but you know there’s a good reason why you gotta have all that stuff on.”

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis