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Example sentences for "haggled"

Lexicographically close words:
haggardly; haggardness; haggards; haggis; haggle; haggling; hagiology; hagion; hagioscope; hagiou
  1. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.

  2. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

  3. The one was short and squat and gross of features, with a great black mustache like a duster that he pulled persistently as he haggled with the angry hackman.

  4. He recognized them as those who had haggled with the hackman at the Cook House two days before.

  5. Farringdon Market buying his own fish; how he haggled with cabmen innumerable; how he had been stricken with a malignant fever on the day he gave away a sovereign for a shilling--there was but the echo of the general sentiment.

  6. I had put a price of four hundred and twenty pounds upon it, meaning to accept three hundred, so that we haggled for two hours by the clock and had then done business.

  7. He also haggled over the funeral service, and so persistently that they ended by knocking off six francs.

  8. His father, informed of the event, came to reclaim the body, and for a long time haggled over giving the thirty-six francs demanded by the hospital authorities.

  9. There, the sublime, unreachable mysteries of the Universe are haggled over by poor finite minds who cannot call their lives their own.

  10. At first the Devil wouldn't hear of such a bargain, and chaffered and haggled with the man; but he stuck to what he said, and at last the Devil had to part with his quern.

  11. He haggled it off at last, but when he tried to pick it to pieces he found the larger strands unwound tolerably well, but to divide them and part the fibres was so wearisome and so difficult that he did not know how to manage it.

  12. So after they had carried the wood they had collected to the round hollow in the field beyond the sycamore-trees, they took out their knives, and haggled the skin off.

  13. They haggled and pushed and crowded; they wanted it to be less expensive, as well as more blessed, to give than to receive.

  14. In the richest city in the world he haggled with abusive push-cart peddlers over five cents' worth of cabbage.

  15. Let us make it two silver pieces without honour," haggled the little old man.

  16. Men of good position were among those who listened to His words with the greatest attention, and then haggled with Him to see if the Kingdom of Heaven could not be had at a cheaper price than the world.

  17. There were also to be seen in those towns nobles and kings from all lands surrounded by dazzling brilliance and gay trains; as others here haggled for spices, silks and furs, so they haggled for dignity and honour.

  18. When a portrait of General Wayne was offered him," continued Brolatsky, "he never haggled over it.

  19. Daily we haggled with arrieros over pack mules or rode to their corrals in the precipitous suburbs of the city and between times there were the odds and ends of a big outfit to be filled in and the commissary to be stocked.

  20. Behind was the line of men, each with his legs charred off to the knees, and his body so haggled and scorched and burst that the willow bands alone seemed to hold it together.

  21. Yet, with a month of nursing from the good Ursulines, they have used their remaining eye to guide them back to the Indian country once more, where even the dogs have been frightened at their haggled faces and twisted limbs.

  22. In the centre stood a headsman's block, all haggled at the top, and smeared with rust-coloured stains.

  23. Having satisfied her thirst at the spring, she took one of the bamboo rods, with its haggled blackening pieces of flesh, and returned to the fire.

  24. Between the penknife and an improvised blade of bamboo, they had flayed the two cubs and haggled off the flesh.

  25. Promoters sought him out and haggled with him--haggled with the prince of promoters!

  26. Yonder a camel-driver squatted and counted his earnings; and a sheepdealer haggled with the owner of a ghiassa bound for the sands of the North.

  27. Craftsmen crowded one upon the other in dark bazaars; merchants chattered and haggled on their benches; hawkers clattered and cried their wares.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haggled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.