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
Her father, Floyd, worked as a traveling salesman, and her mother, Noreen, was a volunteer at a U.S.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023
Thus, the idea of the traveling salesman Hill swindling the locals into investing in a boys’ marching band, with the intent of skipping town before teaching them a note, held up as well.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 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
