haggles
- present tense form of haggle (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In “Between Riverside and Crazy,” a Black man haggles over the concessions he’s being offered by his former employer, the New York Police Department, eight years after he was shot by a white cop.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2023
It’s not going to be because she haggles over paragraphs in the bill.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2021
He haggles with a supermarket cashier, admires the paved roads, poses with a power mower to impress a cousin back home.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2021
McGee notes that Washington often haggles as all sides try to cut a deal.
From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2020
It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened: it never prattles.”
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
