haggling

How To Use haggling In A Sentence

• After a good deal of haggling he bought it and loaded it straight onto a ship sailing south. THE FROZEN WATER TRADE
• Now we're just haggling about the price. Times, Sunday Times
• Hot tears of indignation stood in her eyes when she realized that all the prevarication might be, for them, a way of haggling and trading. COUP D'ETAT
• But it proved very difficult to keep them up to bringing a sufficient supply, and as they had a full share of the universal spirit of haggling, the commissariat was a very harassing and troublesome business, and as to the boys, it was evident that the experiment was not successful. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
• Bad experiences of haggling with illegal touts on the street or in dodgy minicab offices are rooted in people's minds.
• No deal has been agreed and the companies are still haggling over the valuation. Times, Sunday Times
• After some haggling a price of 10,000 was agreed. Times, Sunday Times
• They argue that unseemly haggling with Congress will allow the momentum of the referendum victory to seep away.
• You see them at the airports, haggling their way out of paying for excess baggage. Times, Sunday Times
• A quick divorce can be succeeded by a much longer — and more agonising — period of haggling over the fate of the family.