hawker
Example Sentences
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Last week, Ruto said that Kenya remained open to foreign investment, but it could not be "that a person comes from China or elsewhere to be a hawker or open a small shop".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Or the gallant, pragmatic 8-year-old street hawker selling watercress in Victorian London: “All my money I earns I puts in a club and draws it out to buy clothes with.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Street food isn’t just hawker carts and smoke-filled alleys.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
The ding on the movie is that Timothée Chalamet’s self-centered striver isn’t that different from Adam Sandler’s diamond hawker in “Uncut Gems.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
The hawker took the money from me and made off quickly—no doubt fearing that I would come to my senses.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
