traveling salesman
Example Sentences
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The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Rowlands and Cassavetes teamed up for the first time in 1955’s “Time for Love,” she playing a humble small-town girl, he a traveling salesman who sweeps her off her feet.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024
In 1828, a German traveling salesman and falconer named Johann Spieker died in Lower Saxony, probably by drowning.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023
His father was a traveling salesman who later worked for Kellogg’s, and his mother was a homemaker.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2022
It was late afternoon, and the driver of the car, a middle-aged traveling salesman who shall here be known as Mr. Bell, was tired.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
