floorwalker

Example Sentences

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One former floorwalker confides that employees snap up the best pieces before customers can even see them.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2013

He has all the worldliness of a floorwalker, and looks as if his last adventure were spending two weeks in a Swiss clinic getting a facelift.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this period the floorwalker, syncopater, broadcaster was earning $7,500 a year, but a malicious busybody informed the immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves his office and patrols his domain, correctly clad in striped trousers and short coat, and wearing a bowler hat to keep from being mistaken for a floorwalker.

From Time Magazine Archive

That floorwalker could have simply said that monkeys bite or that popcorn is not their natural diet or something like that—but instead he had to think he was a schoolteacher.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel