wangle

How To Use wangle In A Sentence

• She's wangled an extra week's holiday for herself.
• 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
• 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
• You can wangle only so much for TV-rights packages; only sell so many replica shirts; only cram so many punters inside your ground.
• Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar.
• 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
• 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
• She had wangled an invitation to the opening night.
• 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
• I'll be so jealous if you manage to wangle an invitation to his house.