How to Use budge in a Sentence

budge

verb

• The door was stuck, and we couldn't even get it to budge.
• We tried to change her mind, but we couldn't budge her.
• Their horses refused to budge.
• Could you try opening this jar for me? I can't budge the lid.
• Still, the house hasn’t budged.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2025
• His salary hasn’t budged in five years.
  — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
• But the teenager would not budge from her seat.
  — Clare Amari, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• At some point, somebody will have to budge.
  — Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
• One such coach isn't budging, though.
  — Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
• Still, there are fears that neither side will budge.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
• When the latch on the second crate flipped, the wolf didn’t budge.
  — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• Plant the flag, don’t budge and bring him back to it as soon as the time is right.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• There are some things Diaz doesn’t budge on.
  — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
• That threshold has not budged in more than 60 years.
  — Ryan Brennan may 27, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
• And Tillis isn’t budging on his vow to block the vote.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
• For Heraskevych, his refusal to budge came at a high cost.
  — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
• So far, the committee has not budged on rates.
  — Rob Wile, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
• Despite hours of trying, the lock would not budge.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
• No matter where the day leads you, your makeup will not budge.
  — Erin Michelle Newberg, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• After all, both of these rising signs refuse to budge.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
• The bed didn’t budge and still looks completely new.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
• But the landlord isn’t going to budge.
  — Eddie Huang, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2025
• Have a stubborn zipper that won’t budge?
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2025
• Still, scores have only budged a little.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 June 2026
• In over two decades, that rate has budged by barely three dollars an hour.
  — River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
• Bonds and the dollar barely budged.
  — Rita Nazareth, Bloomberg, 5 Apr. 2026
• Six months in, clinician burnout hadn’t budged.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Thanks to the sandbags, the tent didn’t even budge under heavy gusts of wind.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• But Prince William doesn’t seem to be budging.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Sep. 2025
• Once dry, peel off the tint to reveal a liner stain that won’t budge all day long.
  — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025