How to Use salesman in a Sentence
salesman
noun- He was the company's best salesman last year.
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Scams evolved from the snake oil salesman at the door to mail to email.
— Vijay Pande, Fortune, 13 June 2023 -
The house in Fort Worth, Texas, where a door-to-door salesman was shot.
— Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024 -
The door-to-door salesman shows where a bullet hit his tablet.
— Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024 -
While Rock’s star was on the rise, Hart was working as a shoe salesman.
— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023 -
But as in the movie, Elvis becomes subsumed by the salesman.
— Vogue, 29 May 2022 -
Of course, Biden isn't at his peak as a public salesman.
— W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 27 Nov. 2021 -
Wheel of Fortune is ready to take a new vowel salesman for a spin.
— Vulture, 27 June 2023 -
It’s not so great for Al, but worse for the accordion salesman.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022 -
His father was a salesman; his mother worked on the farm.
— Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024 -
The software salesman has worked hard in his career and even just bought his very first house.
— Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023 -
Tim Allen plays a toy salesman who, through a wacky turn of events, winds up taking up the reins as the next Santa Claus.
— Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2022 -
But the son of a used car salesman had bigger ambitions.
— Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023 -
Michael Yang, an Evergrande salesman in the southern city of Chongqing, is one of them.
— New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021 -
Vogel, who owned a trucking business in New York and was a salesman, worked on the race for 10 more years.
— Lori Riley, courant.com, 7 Nov. 2021 -
The rat-a-tat noise sounded like a determined door-to-door salesman.
— Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 23 Nov. 2021 -
The Ram Temple was only the beginning, said the 27-year-old tire salesman.
— Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Khalilzad is a little more than six feet tall and has the quick, expressive smile of an ace salesman.
— Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021 -
Shallow people focus instead on style, and on the glib talk of the snake oil salesman.
— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024 -
Gong Yoo appeared as a salesman who played the paper flipping game ddakji with Gi-hun in the first episode of Squid Game.
— Jacob Siegal, BGR, 27 Dec. 2021 -
My mom was an ER nurse, and my dad was an insurance salesman.
— Thania Garcia, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023 -
Nordstrom was promoted to shoe salesman at the age of 14.
— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 May 2024 -
The 27-year-old software salesman is ready to skip the small talk and dive into the deep chats, according to Netflix.
— Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023 -
In another teaser, Sheeran took on the role of a mulch and baked beans salesman.
— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2023 -
The salesman seems to love golf (and the outdoors in general), based on his Instagram.
— Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023 -
When an accordion salesman (Thomas Lennon) stops by the house, Nick beats him almost to death.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022 -
But does biohacking work, or is Nguyen just a wellness snake-oil salesman for the 1%?
— Longreads, 31 Aug. 2022 -
To quote the great salesman and living meme Relly B, the girls are going where the money resides.
— Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2021 -
Another got a broken window and recalls the window salesmen going door to door in the neighborhood right after the storm.
— R29 Team, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2024 -
The line is true of all generations, but Tyler, a soap salesman who becomes the spiritual leader of these aggrieved dudes, delivers it as a revelation.
— Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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