traveling man
Example Sentences
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In those days, I used to say that the 175-page mystery, written with a sense of place, was put on earth to lighten the load of the weary traveling man.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2017
“Zahi Hawass is a novel fashion line, not just for the traveling man, but the man who values self-discovery, historicism and adventure,” says the Web site for the company that designed the line.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2011
Trousers In Chicago, one Otto Teeter, traveling man, posed proudly for a Tribune photographer to show off his new "black-bottom" trousers— white flannel with black cuffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Missouri River is harder to suit in the matter of beds than a traveling man.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But no one seemed to notice him, the girl who passed him out his check making change as nonchalantly as though he was but the veriest traveling man instead of a Yale student.
From Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery by Stokes, Roy Eliot