How to Use saleswoman in a Sentence
saleswoman
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The saleswoman put her hand in the bucket, swirled around and emerged with the number 32.
—New York Times, 29 May 2021
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The saleswomen in L'Occitane en Provence's new Havana store make $12.50 a month.
—NBC News, 9 May 2017
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Mi Aung, a 27-year-old saleswoman, also joined the strike.
—Fox News, 22 Feb. 2021
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So did the young saleswoman in the store upstairs with the stylish Japanese wares.
—Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 May 2020
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The most high-profile case was from a former saleswoman.
—Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2020
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But the saleswoman assured me these weren’t just any sandals.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2023
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In Jill Lindsey, the lone saleswoman was fixing her hair in a mirror.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 16 July 2021
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The two groups of diners overlapped for 21 minutes before the saleswoman and her guest left.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
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Of the four women named Lauren, one stood out: Lauren B., a saleswoman from Texas.
—Rebecca Nelson, GQ, 27 May 2018
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A saleswoman also suggested flip-flops would make a good present for the woman in your life.
—Judy Peterson, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2017
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Then Anzora turned to the saleswoman, who caught his drift and smirked, trying her best to stay neutral.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
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The artist Pat Ast worked as a saleswoman (and, later, for one of Halston’s early fashion shows, leaped out of a giant cake).
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
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Eva is a brilliant saleswoman, and Lester loves cooking and spending time with his children.
—Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
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One was working as a saleswoman for three weeks at a pop-up shop that sold expensive leather jackets.
—Kate King, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
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The student left the restaurant five minutes after the saleswoman entered.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
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In Moshoqueque, a market in Chiclayo, a saleswoman shows me pure Andean bear fat in a half-liter plastic bottle.
—National Geographic, 31 May 2019
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That’s when the officer discovered a second saleswoman dressed the same and doing the same thing in the neighborhood.
—John Benson, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
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In between trips to jail, Laumer had bouts of sobriety and held down a handful of jobs: deli manager, 7-Eleven clerk, door-to-door saleswoman.
—Keri Blakinger, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
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This new patient was a 23-year-old saleswoman with mild symptoms of headache and fever who had not had contact with anyone with an infection.
—Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
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As for the libations, saleswomen carrying kegs of beer on their backs walk around the stadiums, are ready to serve up cold pints to spectators.
—Coy Wire and Vivien Jones, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
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Parton opened the concert by zipping through three amiable songs from Run, Rose, Run, playing the new tunes with the conviction of a saleswoman peddling her wares.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2022
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They were seated nearly 16 feet from the infected saleswoman.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
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Finding answers could help women like Sheryl Greene, 50, a fiber optics saleswoman in Roanoke, Va.
—Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
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Now, a snake-oil saleswoman fits perfectly into the Trump cabinet.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 10 July 2017
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Bao Jimi, a saleswoman at a nonwoven fabric exporter in Shanghai, said they were also caught off guard by the sudden rise in the yuan’s value last year.
—Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
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The saleswoman didn’t have any information, but did offer plenty of free postcards.
—Jack Nicas, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
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Hauling her luggage the other direction toward Jiujiang was a saleswoman surnamed Gui, who got up at 8 a.m. for a long taxi ride, then a 90-minute hike over the bridge.
—Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
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But the roof garden where saleswomen (referred to as salesgirls back then) took the air and promenaded a century ago is still there, latticework and all.
—Ralph Blumenthal and Sandra Roff, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
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Leeds was working as a traveling paper saleswoman, which at the time made her among the few women traveling for work, let alone traveling on her own.
—Shira Levine, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
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She was only identified as a resident of Ochakiv and a former military shop saleswoman.
—Artem Grudinin, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
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