How to Use negotiable in a Sentence

negotiable

adjective

• The terms of the contract are negotiable.
• The price was not negotiable.
• The choice was stark and non-negotiable: stay in the city and die of hunger or take to the road and hope for the best.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
• But here’s the best news of all: In both towns, prices are negotiable.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• David: If a price is not given, and the work is done, the price is still negotiable.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2020
• There’s good and there’s bad, and those things are not negotiable.
  — Ann Friedman, The Cut, 22 June 2017
• In other words, hair masks are a non-negotiable part of the process.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 31 Aug. 2017
• But with gear, there is a non-negotiable base price for stuff that works.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2020
• Even the Mountain’s one-sheet states that the price is negotiable; the question is how much.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
• As a new school year rolls around, new clothes and new shoes are non-negotiable.
  — Daria Smith, Southern Living, 19 May 2021
• That is not negotiable and should not change by city or state by state, though.
  — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
• But Mont Lex said that that that would have been negotiable.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
• The Fire is locked into a long-term lease in Bridgeview, but all things are negotiable.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Sunscreen is a non-negotiable every day of the year, rain or shine.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2023
• So most agents will lay out the facts to their clients, with some level of confidence that the fines will be negotiable in the end.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 18 June 2018
• This non-negotiable fee is the amount automakers charge dealers to ship the car to their lot.
  — CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
• And going for the playoffs has never been negotiable for the Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2019
• That was the White House line throughout the talks: the budget was negotiable, but raising the debt ceiling was not.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
• SpaceX says the offer is non-negotiable and expires in two weeks.
  — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2019
• The union wants any changes in job descriptions to be negotiable.
  — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2019
• The zest of a lemon, finely grated with a Microplane, is non-negotiable in my book.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 28 June 2022
• Macron also stressed that no part of the Paris Agreement was negotiable.
  — Aria Bendix, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
• Anything wrapped in a grape leaf can be a dolma, and sometimes even the grape leaf part is negotiable.
  — Kat Craddock, Saveur, 21 Apr. 2017
• To get that back would be a negotiable item between the city and its two police unions, and the firefighters union.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• If that quality of light is a non-negotiable in your search for Christmas net lights, this is the set for you.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2022
• Most seem to agree that thin, tender slices are a must, but the specific cut of beef is negotiable.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
• For Trump, everything is negotiable based on his needs at the time.
  — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2024
• That’s non-negotiable, can’t have those kind of efforts.
  — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
• One thing that's non-negotiable this summer—and every other day of the year?
  — Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 May 2022
• The bottom line: Commissions on home sales are not set by law and are negotiable.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024