haggle
verb (used without object)
to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner.
is haggling
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present progressiveof haggle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I just love the idea that Elon is haggling with Stephen King over the price like it’s, like, tomatoes at a farmer’s market, you know?
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
As one of my Post colleagues darkly predicted, we still know what’s going to happen in the end; all that’s really happening now is haggling over the price.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
But while Mother Courage is haggling with the sergeant over the price of a belt buckle, the recruiter, playing on Eilif’s naïveté and ego, draws him away before she can intervene.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2016
How much the omitted amount matters in large part is relative to the size of the assets over which a couple is haggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2013
Gessler has summoned Meissen; has not got it, is haggling with it about terms, when, towards sunset of the short day, Old Dessauer himself arrives.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
