salesman

Example Sentences

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A retired salesman once told me that sales is like fishing—you wait patiently for the right moment.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

“He wants a revolution,” Edwin Reyes, 42 years old, a bicycle-parts salesman, said at a Cepeda campaign rally in the capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

The son of a bartender and a liquor salesman, he was raised in Portland, Ore. — which he and his family still called home.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

He is not a natural salesman and has little interest in manufactured theatre.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Not long afterward, the onetime insurance salesman opened a business in downtown Fairfax, peddling bona fide policies.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann