How to Use give-and-take in a Sentence

give-and-take

noun
  • Is there an equal amount of give-and-take?
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
  • There will be little give-and-take.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
  • But there will be a give-and-take as to boundaries, land, etcetera, etcetera.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But not everything is up for give-and-take.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • In turn, inflation over the past year has been a game of give-and-take.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • There's a give-and-take to this—this Dad no doubt works long hours outside the home.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The same goes for the give-and-take often required of friendships.
    — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The latter was a constant source of give-and-take with coaches.
    — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • His offensive approach, though, has been a give-and-take.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a give-and-take, and some parts of the deal turn out to be better or worse than expected.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 May 2026
  • Cruz has been inspired by them during the give-and-take of rehearsals, and vice versa.
    — Christine Dolen, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But there’s another sense of dealing with things, which centers on a give-and-take.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Newspapers welcomed the give-and-take with their readers.
    — Lawrence Glickman, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Be okay with the usual give-and-take of your friendship looking lopsided for a while.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The key was to insure some give-and-take before students were called to defend an opinion.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • By early March, that give-and-take seemed to enter a critical stage.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But those conversations are about give-and-take and hashing out answers.
    — Ari Pinkus, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
  • Any creative process that involves relationships is give-and-take.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Here's a look at the give-and-take the City and the developer are working on working out.
    — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The give-and-take extends to the court, where UC San Diego has roared out of the gates.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025
  • To complete the art-life give-and-take, the arrest of Maduro could now in turn have an impact on the subjects of the film.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This is a time to reflect on the financial or emotional give-and-take in your one-on-one connections.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Embracing the principles of give-and-take extends beyond live events.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 6 May 2024
  • For them, politics was a matter of ideals and issues, not material give-and-take.
    — Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The House settlement is a compromise agreement that reflects give-and-take.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 Jan. 2026
  • May is all about redefining yourself, but learning to manage a healthy give-and-take in your relationships is key.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • As has been in the past, there are give-and-take elements associated with choosing prestige.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Says its not easy to find teams to play Alabama, so negotiations required give-and-take.
    — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • For any deal to be signed into law, however, will require a give-and-take that Democrats might find difficult to swallow.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The end result is a chatty bot that enables the give-and-take interaction portrayed in that Apple video.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023

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