- present participle of haggle.
haggling
Example Sentences
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No one wants to waste the weekend haggling over $20.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The haggling has certainly played out more publicly than most negotiations.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
But first, he needs to hammer out a common stance between the parliament's different factions, which looked set to keep haggling until the last moment.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
The grandson of a carpet merchant, he likened negotiations to bargaining in the Iranian bazaar, where endless haggling using different arguments brings results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
They begin haggling over a price like I've seen the women in jail do when someone has been able to smuggle in a thing from outside that everyone else wants.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
