How to Use wiggle room in a Sentence
wiggle room
noun- The salesman has some wiggle room to reduce the price of the car.
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The Cubs don’t have much wiggle room for things to go wrong.
—Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2022
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This has left little wiggle room for the rest of the field.
—Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
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The style fits at the waist and tapers down the leg with a little wiggle room.
—Barry Samaha, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2023
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That means a lot less wiggle room on prices for new and used rigs.
—Liz Weston, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
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That’s almost a third of the league’s teams, which removes a lot of the wiggle room in the schedule.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
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That would leave more wiggle room for the loser of a game like this to still make the playoff.
—Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 20 June 2020
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The series is about Barry in a way that doesn’t give it a ton of wiggle room.
—Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 20 May 2018
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Keep this in mind, and make sure your shoes or boots have plenty of wiggle room.
—Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
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There’s enough wiggle room in those statements to drive a truck through.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 July 2021
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Still, the remedies proposed by the CMA don’t give Adobe much wiggle room.
—Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 28 Nov. 2023
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Since the new schedule is eight games in eight weeks, there is no wiggle room.
—Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2020
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There’s wiggle room in the finished product, and styles fit for kitchens of all shapes and sizes.
—Sarah Lloyd, Good Housekeeping, 16 Mar. 2020
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The narrow fit is perfectly snug in the arch area with enough wiggle room in the toes.
—Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2023
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My feet are wide, and these give my toes plenty of wiggle room.
—Hannah Singleton, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2024
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What kind of wiggle room does Trump have to push his legal case?
—Tierney Sneed, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
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There’s not a lot of wiggle room between those eight teams.
—Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 18 Oct. 2017
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This language gives Twitch a fair amount of wiggle room.
—Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
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The statement does leave some wiggle room to not proceed with a vote.
—NBC News, 21 Sep. 2017
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For brands that make that part of their bottom line, there isn’t much wiggle room.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 9 May 2025
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The lacrosse game was moved to Friday night to give the football game some more wiggle room with the weather.
—Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018
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That gives you a lot more wiggle room than many other providers.
—Liz Knueven, CNBC, 29 May 2025
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Now contracts are about a third as long with more wiggle room.
—Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
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To key Illinois lawmakers, that left wiggle room.
—Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
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Give yourself creative wiggle room.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 7 June 2026
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This cash gives us some more wiggle room to gradually build those positions up on post-breakup volatility.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 4 June 2026
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Just true or false, with no wiggle room in between.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
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For Brantner, there’s absolutely no wiggle room now.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 27 May 2026
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With more wiggle room, these countries can drop the price at the pump more significantly when oil prices spike—and still hold on to some revenue.
—Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
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The administration appears to leave some wiggle room on the Lebanon question.
—ABC News, 27 May 2026
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