hawker
Example Sentences
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For the first time, I could picture the legendary tropical city of Malayan sampans, Chinese street hawkers and British colonial languor.
He is France's last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe.
From BBC
Most of his revenue now comes from wholesale customers – hawkers or those selling street-side snacks.
From BBC
Goma residents filled the streets a few miles from the border with Rwanda - commuters headed to work, hawkers sold goods by the roadside and taxi drivers scrambled to win customers.
From BBC
“Go back through the history of the past thousand years and you will find that nine-tenths of the popular idols of the world – have been hawkers of palpable nonsense.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
