traveling salesman
Example Sentences
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But as a traveling salesman across the South, he came to understand that winning his constituents’ hearts and minds meant winning on the football field.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
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
She was the youngest of three children of Salomon Minco, a traveling salesman, and Grietje Minco-Van Hoorn.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2023
Set in the future — which looks like a mashup of “The Jetsons” and “Pleasantville,” Crudup plays Jack, a traveling salesman of lunar timeshares.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023
Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
