How to Use salesmanship in a Sentence
salesmanship
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As in drug dealing, the free taste is the key to good salesmanship.
—Rich Cohen, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
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This is not good salesmanship, but the songs are strong.
—Josh Chesler, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2022
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The pop-up shops of the past were often unattractive and lacked salesmanship.
—Walter Loeb, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
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But some of this was also a feature of a sport that doesn’t require salesmanship in most parts of the world.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
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That kind of salesmanship has entered the nightlife culture in Goa, as well.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2023
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That means there has to be a bit of salesmanship that goes on when players meet with teams behind closed doors.
—Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 11 Jan. 2018
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That knack for salesmanship could translate to the car business.
—The Economist, 27 Sep. 2017
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At 41, Manning is done with football (on the field, at least) but likely has years of salesmanship to go.
—Jenny Green, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
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But this is its own form of denial and masks the real reason: poor salesmanship.
—Stewart Easterby, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
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For one thing, the phrase calls to mind the snake-oil salesmanship that has animated Trump’s rise to power.
—Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 23 Jan. 2017
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His father taught him the salesmanship that would serve him later in life: Get people to try the product.
—Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
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This is where your salesmanship comes in handy—know your subject inside out.
—Manish Gupta, Forbes, 17 June 2022
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What does his impressive salesmanship mean for India, the region, and the world?
—Ravi Agrawal, CNN, 6 July 2017
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As Obamacare slips into the next world, no one should lie awake thinking salesmanship could have saved it.
—Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 7 Jan. 2017
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Again, Kirby says the salesmanship outstrips the science here.
—Outside Online, 28 Apr. 2022
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What Del Conte brings to the table is backslapping, my-man salesmanship turned to 11.
—Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2020
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And the piecemeal comfort and convenience options that abound in the competitors can feel like a whole lot of snake oil salesmanship.
—Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
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Trump is banking on his salesmanship to overcome the bill’s dismal poll numbers.
—Noah Bierman, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
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For Biden, a salesmanship strategy tracks closely to his own stated desire to find the best ways to message his plans.
—Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Jeff Zeleny, CNN, 20 July 2021
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Trump, a newcomer to elective office but an old hand at salesmanship, broke that mold.
—Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
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And both are best known within their industries for their salesmanship.
—Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 22 July 2017
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To see how Kennedy Space Center is reinventing itself is to see how the engineering and salesmanship go hand in hand.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2015
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Use your knack for charming others as a form of personal salesmanship.
—Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 17 May 2017
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Eataly's Eric Schack took home first place after scoring top marks in tests ranging from aroma and taste to salesmanship and plating.
—Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 6 July 2018
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The company was founded, in 1980, by Mark Hughes, a high-school dropout with a talent for storytelling and salesmanship.
—Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
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Many people described Taylor to me as a good salesman, and a particular kind of salesmanship did seem to shape his version of events.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
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Are businesses entering a new era of snake (or sn-A.I.-ke) oil salesmanship?
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
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But the Super League is an idea that will return, probably with savvier salesmanship.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2021
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There wasn’t much place for many of the old stars in the new Hollywood, which was less about appearances and salesmanship and more about psychology and behavior.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
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Tagging along with her is an experience that Magana credits with nurturing his gift for salesmanship.
—WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
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