How to Use haggle in a Sentence

haggle

verb
  • She is good at haggling.
  • These are not two sides haggling over price.
    — Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Dark powers that had to be begged and haggled with.
    — Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Here are four key issues that the two sides are haggling over.
    — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • And who wants to haggle with someone over the price or find a place to meet?
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Nobody is able to sell or haggle on the showroom floor.
    — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The war galvanized them in a way that haggling over wages and hours no longer did.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The sides can haggle all the way up until the hearing begins.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • There was no price range used to gauge demand and no haggling with prospective shareholders.
    — Jordan Novet,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 June 2026
  • The state, local governments and private firms have been haggling for years over how much each should pay.
    — oregonlive.com, 15 July 2019
  • Don’t even think about trying to haggle, especially this time of year.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Expect to be asked questions and have customers looking to haggle.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Shari Redstone had been pushing for a reunion for about three years as the two boards have haggled over price.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But with no children, the former couple had little to haggle over in the divorce.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • So why does buying B2B software still feel like haggling at a bazaar?
    — Salim Gheewalla, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Obviously, with the rookie wage scale in place, there’s less for the teams and agents to haggle over than there used to be.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • Wonks and many activists tend to talk about it as such, haggling over what set of policies is best suited to reach that goal, and by when.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Another option is to sell your old furniture at a yard sale, but be prepared to haggle.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The former sees an endless highway while the latter is prepared to haggle over a handful of change.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • No desks stacked with laptops, no hurried haggling over prices in tight booths, no sense that collectors were racing against the clock.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • After about two hours of haggling, Perry said he was refunded the full service fee.
    — Vicky Nguyen, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In addition to haggling over the content of a deal, the two sides are also squabbling over how any new rules would be enforced.
    — Anna Fifield, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • With large items, don’t forget to haggle for deals on delivery, installations and haul-aways too.
    — Nicole Spector, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But drivers were afraid to take the risk, forcing the Mohammadis to haggle for a fare more than five times the normal cost.
    — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • That’s not going to be the case when both sides start haggling over the details of a potential nuclear agreement.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • While officials from both countries continue to haggle, the economic toll of the trade war is adding up.
    — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Also, don’t try to haggle the price or start trying to work in extras (for example bringing out a group of friends to hunt with you).
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2020
  • New containers arrive monthly, and the staff is always happy to haggle.
    — Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In labyrinthine souqs by cascading plateaus of trash, customers haggled over Europe’s fashion waste.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • After some haggling over price and exchange of coins, Pat persuaded an attendant to fill our plane tanks.
    — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026

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