Sentence examples for wangle from high-quality English sources.

• It took Mr Iger six months just to wangle a meeting.

• They wangle his number somehow and text him, or send him pleading emails.

• Those primed to feel powerful were more likely to lie about their scores in order to wangle extra tickets.

• Concurrent to the festering sore that is Adam's musical career, he managed to wangle himself a gig on Radio Wales.

• Their politicians can wangle top jobs, usually as compromise candidates.

• He seemed to believe that even now he could wangle something—or maybe, with the stubbornness of a man dying of cancer, felt he had nothing to lose by hanging on.

• Some commentators have suggested that Mr Noboa might try to wangle his way towards putting together a new centre-right majority, or even seek to dissolve Congress.

• Meanwhile, he would sit in the bar of the New Theatre in Manchester, which was frequented by Granada TV staff, hoping to wangle a job as an assistant floor manager.

Use wangle in a sentence.

• A handful—Zambia’s Frederick Chiluba in 2002, Malawi’s Bakili Muluzi in 2004 and Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007—stepped down only after trying in vain to wangle extensions.

• Whenever it is unable to wangle a favourable deal for a military base abroad, or it wants to play up nationalism at home, Russia threatens to introduce visas for Central Asians.

• The court ruled that Mr Atambayev had helped wangle the early release from prison of a mafia don, Aziz Batukayev, supposedly on compassionate grounds, using a fake diagnosis of leukaemia.

• And if all that wasn’t exciting enough, it’s proved a bit of a hit with celebs, who fall over themselves to wangle an invite: recent weeks have seen the likes of Tom Cruise, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart drinking there.

• Sometimes he’d take a break, and we’d stand together by the window overlooking Fourth Avenue and talk, eat cookies, or look down to the street, where little gangs of homeless kids swarmed around taxis stopped at red lights, trying to wangle a few bucks out of the cabbies.

• How did we arrive at a situation where we think it is appropriate for probably inbred arseclowns with the right connections and background, who have managed to wangle their way into the upper echelons of mining companies, to make decisions about whether 45000 year old cultural heritage should be retained or not?