haggle
verb (used without object)
to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner.
had haggled
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past perfectof haggle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Laborers in 12 unions, representing more than 115,000 employees, had haggled for roughly three years with major rail operators particularly over their attendance policies.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
She had haggled with each jeweler in her typical outspoken fashion, Rawat recalled.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2016
In 1960 diplomats had haggled fruitlessly for months over the two opposing disarmament schemes put forth by the West and by Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had haggled with the most ferocious usurers of the island, insulting some, outwitting others in finesse, resorting to persuasion or to bravado, advancing money to satisfy the more urgent creditors, who threatened attachment.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas
He had, as his papers had said, gone to do business with a certain Mr. Yee, had haggled over the price of certain goods, and had been unsuccessful in establishing a mutual price.
From What The Left Hand Was Doing by Kelly Freas
