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
• The style fits at the waist and tapers down the leg with a little wiggle room.
  — Barry Samaha, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Nets have more wiggle room, seemingly, ahead of their first home game on Oct. 24.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• And retirees—the folks with the least amount of wiggle room in their monthly income—are taking the brunt.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Clarkson picked up the doll and gave it a squeeze, suggesting maybe there was some wiggle room in the rules.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• The June date for the primaries gives the courts and election officials less wiggle room in case the courts overturn the maps.
  — Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• This means a song has to contain a certain amount of wiggle room to sound both wide-eyed and hairy-legged.
  — David Kirby, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• The one-size-for-all design of some of the cheaper brands might leave you with too much wiggle room for your feet or not enough.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
• Yes, the company has left itself wiggle room to call off the IPO.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• That doesn’t leave much wiggle room if customers are slow to return to old habits.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• But if your program is built on doing things the right way all the time, there is little wiggle room.
  — Jenni Carlson, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
• Short on wiggle room, Clement did what any good lawyer does when your client is Fox News — scramble!
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• That provides some levity and some fun and a lot of wiggle room.
  — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• The problem is that a lot of wiggle room is bound to slyly be found within any of the sincerest of bans.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• The wiggle room for grants and awards varies depending on the conference.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• Both teams are at the top of their divisions, but neither has much wiggle room to play with.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
• Yet the budget that passed in the spring included record-high payments to Alaskans that didn’t leave much wiggle room.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• As with cooking rolled oats, there’s plenty of wiggle room with the ratios.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• Some businesses even may have more wiggle room to pass along their higher costs in the form of price hikes here — up to a point.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2022
• While there’s some wiggle room for spontaneity, traveling to the Olympics requires a fair amount of advance research and organization for most fans.
  — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2024
• That’s partly because the state law prohibiting price gouging during an emergency provides landlords with some wiggle room.
  — Nick Grube, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024