finagle

Example Sentences

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“Obsessed,” he finagled his way onto the set and into a job.

From Los Angeles Times

Hummel is one of the few who relish diagnosing their problems, taking them apart and finagling them in and out of trucks.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the film takes a clever yet light bit of finagling to find online, it’s worth the search: “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” is a life-altering, life-affirming event movie to rival even the best Dickens alteration.

From Salon

I don’t know how these guys finagled that.

From The Wall Street Journal

He had finagled some blank report cards and used them to bring home self-inserted high marks.

From Los Angeles Times