How to Use wiggle room in a Sentence

wiggle room

noun
  • The salesman has some wiggle room to reduce the price of the car.
  • The Cubs don’t have much wiggle room for things to go wrong.
    — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This has left little wiggle room for the rest of the field.
    — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
  • The style fits at the waist and tapers down the leg with a little wiggle room.
    — Barry Samaha, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2023
  • That means a lot less wiggle room on prices for new and used rigs.
    — Liz Weston, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The series is about Barry in a way that doesn’t give it a ton of wiggle room.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 20 May 2018
  • Keep this in mind, and make sure your shoes or boots have plenty of wiggle room.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There’s enough wiggle room in those statements to drive a truck through.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 July 2021
  • Still, the remedies proposed by the CMA don’t give Adobe much wiggle room.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Since the new schedule is eight games in eight weeks, there is no wiggle room.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The narrow fit is perfectly snug in the arch area with enough wiggle room in the toes.
    — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2023
  • My feet are wide, and these give my toes plenty of wiggle room.
    — Hannah Singleton, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2024
  • What kind of wiggle room does Trump have to push his legal case?
    — Tierney Sneed, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • This language gives Twitch a fair amount of wiggle room.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • For brands that make that part of their bottom line, there isn’t much wiggle room.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 9 May 2025
  • 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
  • Now contracts are about a third as long with more wiggle room.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In tight races, that means there’s plenty of wiggle room one way or the other.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Like all rules of thumb, there is wiggle room, but the goals are a reasonable guide.
    — Nancy Tengler, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2020
  • That’s around six months, giving you a bit of wiggle room to fight for a fairer bill.
    — Mattie Quinn, SELF, 15 Feb. 2019
  • But Trump, in his remarks, left enough wiggle room to keep the option alive in some form.
    — Peter Sullivan, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
  • But the wiggle room here doesn’t give you a 100% guarantee.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This leaves a lot of wiggle room as to what size bag counts as a personal item.
    — Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The blue ball sails over the red ball and passes right through a wicket that allows a mere 1/16 inch of wiggle room.
    — Chris MacIas -, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But putting out a top five could suggest at least some wiggle room.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 10 July 2020
  • Give us some wiggle room to make the corrections that will put us both at ease.
    — Essence, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Kansas City’s defense gave its offense lots of wiggle room.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025

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