Sentences with wangle
wan·gle
W w - We managed to wangle a few days' leave. [VERB noun]
- He wangled himself a salary increase
- It's every airline passenger's dream, but it takes a lot more than a sharp suit and chutzpah to wangle an upgrade.
- As Jennifer starts to make friends with the researchers and Blair gets in over his head trying to wangle himself a corporate promotion.
- To wangle an invitation.
- To wangle business records.
- My colleague assured me it was very tasty stuff indeed, which he had managed to wangle out of a small winemaker at Drysdale.
- For the past 10 days, she said, she has been trying to wangle tickets and shaking out her one suitable frock for those formal evening screenings.