salesman

Example Sentences

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He has the confidence to only dress up his new dystopia a tad, letting the scale of the oppression creep up on you when, say, an açaí bowl salesman casually asks Tereza for her papers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

When Zach Carabajal saw gas prices skyrocketing, the car salesman sprang into action.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Or as my father, the car salesman, would describe it, “they were negotiating.”

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Some said war was all but inevitable, while one salesman who gave his name as Mehdi predicted the negotiations would succeed, saying: "The Americans are bluffing."

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

“Oh, thet. I jest made her up—like a good salesman makes up thet somebody else is waitin’ with the money if'n you don’t take what he’s sellin’.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns