How To Use Wangle In A Sentence

  • I'd love to go to the match tomorrow do you think you can wangle it?
  • I've been posted various places, managed to wangle this assignment a year and a half ago. FOLLY
  • The King looked after him, with some wonder at this want of breeding, which, however, he imputed to his visitor’s insular education, and then again began to twangle his viol. Anne of Geierstein
  • I'd love to go to the match tomorrow do you think you can wangle it?
  • I'll be so jealous if you manage to wangle an invitation to his house.
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  • Dan was not much in the humour for tunes, but he said, "Ay, Joe, give us a one, man-alive," and Joe struck up with twangle and squeak. Strangers at Lisconnel
  • That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a Jews-harp; that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; - these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith. The Letters of Robert Burns
  • A busy couple of days ensues: I managed to wangle out of the workplace Christmas do this year, but our own department's Christmas lunch is coming up.
  • She managed to wangle an invitation to the reception.
  • In fact, if I can wangle it, I'm going to get myself into the army catering corps. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • It has a sort of hooked bit on the end and almost certainly has some quaint name like `cordwangler's grommet disengager '. KICK BACK
  • She wangled an invitation.
  • A pile of closed files was stacked to his left, and the junk-shop-recovered radio on a shelf across the room sung a treble-topped twangle of some piece or other of classical music. The Art Thief
  • Sometimes she wangled a large marrowbone to cook with our meat ration and lots of vegetables, this lasted a couple of days.
  • In Alabama, you must shoot a doe before you wangle a buck permit.
  • I came home today instead of tomorrow, I was able to wangle myself a seat on a navy transport from Groton.
  • Although they wangled an invitation to the CBI, they dropped their opening-round game March 17 to College of Charleston, ending the season at 20-13. Eastern Kentucky - Team Notes
  • Bannister had wangled a continuance of the trial, but unless he could produce Pike, Hardiman's chances looked slim.
  • That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime than the twingle-twangle of The Letters of Robert Burns
  • Busted by her employer for fraud, she wangled a slot at Hampshire College. Jesse Kornbluth: Gabrielle Hamilton: From Wild Child to Successful Restaurateur
  • He came to wangle your legacy from you and you refused.
  • Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar.
  • It's bound to be a boring party let's try to wangle out of it / going.
  • Unless Barrett can wangle an extended stay in Dundee.
  • family depended on his ability to wangle a few dollars occasionally . With this money, they would eat well and dress well for a while , making a pretence of affluence.
  • I've been posted various places, managed to wangle this assignment a year and a half ago. FOLLY
  • I'll try to wangle a contribution out of him.
  • That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a jew's-harp: that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; -- these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
  • This told me he'd managed to wangle an early swerve, even though it was only half past three in the afternoon! THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
  • If I can think of some excuse to wangle my way out of going tonight I will do!
  • We managed to wangle a few days' leave.
  • So she wangled nights out with four such desirable men and reported back on the pros and cons of the ‘perfect’ dates.
  • When I was trying to wangle invitations to Washington to talk about this stuff, they would get private investors to hop on a plane and fly to New Haven to see it.
  • I'd love to go to the match tomorrow do you think you can wangle it?
  • He managed to wangle his way onto the course.
  • In 1878 he wangled the post of superintendent of the White River Indian Agency in a cold, remote valley, a region that interested white miners. Bird Cloud
  • In the end she wangled an invitation.
  • The Oxford history graduate scoffs at the idea that his father somehow wangled him the job of co-presenting and researching the programme and accompanying book.
  • I'd love to go to the match tomorrow do you think you can wangle it?
  • I'd love to go to the match tomorrow do you think you can wangle it?
  • He just wangled an all day expedition to an off the road interesting local area and an orchid farm. Where to Find Friends for Travel in Back Country
  • Also, companies are keen to wangle best prices from their sales reps, a tactic which dabs.com ignores - its telesales team is not to negotiate on price.
  • So if you're determined to land a tutor, you need to wangle invites to all those College dinners at High Table.
  • To contend with this carnal orchestra, the religious world, having long ago rejected its Catholic Psalms as antiquated and unscientific, and finding its Puritan melodies sunk into faint jar and twangle from their native trumpet-tone, had nothing to oppose but the innocent, rather than religious, verses of the school recognised as that of the English The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
  • I'll be so jealous if you manage to wangle an invitation to his house.
  • She had wangled an invitation to the opening night.
  • The Professor manages to wangle a job as the producer's assistant and is given responsibility for many of the production details.
  • - for the sake of one's ears, in mercy, stop that everlasting twangle of your old fiddle! Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
  • Will Lola and Ella be able to get to the concert, wangle invitations to Stu's party afterward, and face down Carla?
  • It has a sort of hooked bit on the end and almost certainly has some quaint name like `cordwangler's grommet disengager '. KICK BACK
  • I wangled a trip to one of its conferences in Miami a few years ago and was bowled over by the quality of access that journalists, members of the public enjoy, to basic public information.
  • Nothing daunted, Mid soon "wangled" permission to become attached to the Night Bombing with the Bedouins
  • I asked the Captain to wangle us three tickets to Athens.
  • When I was younger, I used to wangle my way on to the table most weekends.
  • I'd love to go to the match tomorrow do you think you can wangle it?
  • The hotel was a pleasant place and he'd managed to wangle enough petrol to drive her home at about midnight each time. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • In fact, if I can wangle it, I'm going to get myself into the army catering corps. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • I'll be so jealous if you manage to wangle an invitation to his house.
  • The hotel was a pleasant place and he'd managed to wangle enough petrol to drive her home at about midnight each time. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • She had wangled an invitation to the opening night.
  • An old Indian merchant, or some such thing, seemed to me a better character — the Spaniard did nothing but stalk about and twangle his guitar, for the amusement of my Lady Binks, as I think.” Saint Ronan's Well
  • Nor have they the fine American hand for devising new verbs; to maffick, to limehouse, to strafe and to wangle are their best specimens in twenty years, and all have an almost pathetic flatness. Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
  • Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar.
  • You can wangle only so much for TV-rights packages; only sell so many replica shirts; only cram so many punters inside your ground.
  • A friend of his, who had held it, had enlarged upon the delightful hypocrisy of the sleepy little capital, where everything was engineered and "wangled" for the comfort of the A Mummer's Tale
  • Look at Mengelberg, look at Furtwängler, and look at the rest of the Mitteleuropa-trained composers in the past one hundred years. Mengelberg's Mahler
  • In the end she wangled an invitation.
  • ‘I managed to wangle that,’ he admits, ‘I'm experienced, and that got me through.’
  • He was trying to wangle his way onto the committee.
  • When those "Spring's delights" of which you melodiously twangle are a leetle more _en évidence_. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892
  • She managed to wangle an invitation to the reception.
  • He managed to wangle his way onto the course.
  • Then we said our goodbyes, but not before I'd wangled an opening night ticket out of him for Saturday Night Fever.
  • If he could wangle his backside onto or into a seat he was away!
  • One Labour MP hinted that Smith's case was a wangle, and mentioned other sportsmen and celebrities who had returned home quickly after call-up.
  • Gary: Yeah, that did amuse me. @rutty: I think CV are a great example ... mupwangle: I'm sure that CV were also thrilled to be included ... rutty: Stephen Green causes teenage infertility. Bigmouth Strikes Again
  • If anyone could have dreamed up an unlikely idea like the Wooden Horse and wangled his way into Troy, he would have.
  • She's wangled an extra week's holiday for herself.
  • It has a sort of hooked bit on the end and almost certainly has some quaint name like `cordwangler's grommet disengager '. KICK BACK
  • Lyman Lamartine would somehow wangle his way out of the great Native apocalypse. THE BINGO PALACE
  • I had to wangle the cheddar cheese away from our other sous-chef, Eric, who was holding onto it for some as-yet-unbooked private party.
  • The kindest fate sent me across -- I 'wangled' a passport -- really serious war work, and here I am for a fortnight, even in war time one Man and Maid
  • wangled" leave; I did myself see an application which would have wrung scalding tears from the eyes of a stoat, whose moving theme originated entirely in the fertile brain of one of the man's comrades. With Our Army in Palestine
  • Having wangled a job on the support staff - ‘the best grounding I could have had’ - she had daily access to the editors and decision-makers in every title.
  • Furtwängler to have been acroteria (_Arch, Zeitung_, 1882, p. 336 ff.) The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • This told me he'd managed to wangle an early swerve, even though it was only half past three in the afternoon! THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
  • Amanda had wangled a job for Robyn with the council.

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