salesman

Example Sentences

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Still, I found myself listening attentively to the warning Miller was issuing about buying into the salesman ethos.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

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

Or as my father, the car salesman, would describe it, “they were negotiating.”

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Mehdi, a 58-year-old salesman believes the opposite, saying that "the Americans are bluffing" and that "the negotiations will be 100% successful".

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

In one case, Wolf recruited a young man, code-named FELIX, who crossed over into West Germany and found work as a salesman for a beauty-supply company.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau