haggle
verb (used without object)
to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner.
was haggling
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past progressiveof haggle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The hardest part was haggling over the average annual value and total years.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2016
There was haggling over equal time; if one character got his due with the scene of the birth of a baby, another might have wanted one too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2015
France was haggling for "political guarantees" before she would agree to a German loan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its Legislature, now sitting in special session, was haggling over another $12,000.000 relief bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
This morning, whilst I was haggling for some fine fruit under the peristyle of the Palace, I heard the people talking with bated breath of the accident that had befallen the beautiful Dogess.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
