monger

Example Sentences

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Kraft mac and cheese, first sold in 1937 for 19 cents a box, was the creation of Chicago cheese monger James L. Kraft, who got his start selling cheese from a horse-drawn wagon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Ask your fish monger if it can be eaten raw 5.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

Mr. Lazar released a raft of documents on the FBI’s tracking of one of its own former special agents, Willard Cleon Skousen, a far-right Mormon leader and conspiracy monger.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

Despite his last name and the negative connotation of monger, this intense and angry antihero, played by Michael B. Jordan, captures the sympathy of viewers.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Coming thus, without knowledge, any might have judged him an honest coal monger busy at his trade.

From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Bentley, Charles S.