How to Use businessman in a Sentence

businessman

noun

• I know it's hard for him to sell his paintings. He's always been a better artist than businessman.
• The businessman was left with a gash over his eye, a broken rib and bite marks on his arms, according to court records.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Musk would be far from the first wealthy businessman to build a utopian-minded company town.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• The 54-year-old businessman, an associate of Bannon, has long been the subject of legal wrangling.
  — Bob Van Voris, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• The businessman, whose net worth Bloomberg has estimated at $10.1 billion, is based in Monaco.
  — Stacy Permanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Smalls was born a slave and went on to become a mariner, a businessman, a publisher and a congressman who represented South Carolina, the state where he was born.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
• The businessman commissioned architect Dale Overmeyer to remodel and combine the homes, which took around four years to complete.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2023
• Authorities say the scheme was orchestrated by Malaysian businessman Jho Low, who also was indicted but remains at large.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Mar. 2023
• Félicien Kabuga, a wealthy businessman who had been on the run for 23 years, has been on trial since last year.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Three New Jersey businessmen were also charged in the bribery scheme.
  — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• It was built in 1888 for Lewis Kayton, a prominent businessman of the time.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2023
• Today, the retired businessman is fishing for gold, silver and gems from the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1656.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 27 July 2023
• Anant is the 29-year-old heir and youngest son of billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
• His effort and his aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis, were funded by some of the city’s leading businessmen.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2024
• The American businessman had found a key in his late mother’s purse that opened a safe deposit box.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• For at least two months, Israel has been partnering with local businessmen to truck in aid to the north.
  — Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• The businessmen who revived it have done a public service.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• Bardot and businessman Bernard d’Ormale met in July 1992 and married in August of that year.
  — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• Menendez and two businessmen who allegedly paid him bribes have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
  — CBS News, 24 June 2024
• Peary was as demanding and iron-willed as the rich businessmen who supported him.
  — Time, 15 July 2023
• Gallagher closed his trip with a shot at businessmen’s reluctance to take a stronger stance on Chinese threats.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Sep. 2023
• This early commitment to business led to his first mentor at the age of fourteen - a local businessman from the age of 14.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• The billionaire businessman opened up Moskito Island to the public in 2021.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Rupert Murdoch is a newspaper man, and he’s been a very good businessman.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
• The businessman from Plaistow, N.H., was an avid bighorn hunter and purchased several ranches in the Riggins area.
  — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the United States, businessmen are treated as heroes.
  — Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
• Crow’s access to the justice extends to anyone the businessman chooses to invite along.
  — Joshua Kaplan, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
• In remarks directed at Musk by name and posted to his comment, the White House called out the world’s most powerful businessman.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Giulia is the daughter of businessman and politician Paulo Marinho, who has been involved in political campaigns since 1986.
  — Renan Botelho, WWD, 13 Aug. 2024
• Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, says the program is working just fine as is and has the backing of other fiscally moderate Democrats and most Republicans in the legislature.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024