How to Use peddler in a Sentence

peddler

noun

• The police punished the peddlers, the strike was broken, and the law remained on the books.
  — Kate Wagner, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2018
• Many fake news peddlers didn’t care if Trump won or lost the election.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2018
• Back in the day, there was a peddler in New York named Amadou Diallo.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
• The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler—all!
  — Annika Neklason, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
• The unwanted monkeys in his backyard pitch in to help the peddler out of a jam.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
• The tactic has gotten smut peddlers in trouble in the past, Catlett said.
  — Julia Scheeres, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2002
• Moroccan peddlers trudged through hot sand, their backs to their home, just across the sea.
  — Longreads, 29 July 2019
• As the story continues, the peddler falls on hard times.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
• He's referred to throughout the show as a Persian peddler.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2018
• He was often called the last of the New Orleans street peddlers, and many feared that his death would mean the end of a tradition that dates back to the late 1800s.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• An aged Italian peddler and a white laundryman were stabbed to death by Blacks.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• The corner drug peddlers and prostitutes are all but gone.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 16 Mar. 2020
• Porter, whose efforts to restore the hotel continued in spite of the fair’s demise, was its peddler.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Wall Street peddlers will sense there’s a kindred spirit building this house of cards, even as Akhtar takes them down.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Even street peddlers were forced to obtain licenses for a fee.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2017
• More cases take the detective’s attention: a teenage girl is found slain in a park; a smut peddler falls to death from a roof.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• Jade peddlers camped out in one empty parking lot, spreading green and yellow stones across the ground.
  — Philip Wen, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• In the poem a peddler cuts away some of the clothes of a sleeping old lady, who then cannot recognize herself.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• And, despite their demurrals, the snake-oil peddlers who are perilously close to achieving their goal know good and well this is the case.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 June 2017
• Fruit and vegetable peddlers hawked their produce from three-wheeled electric carts.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013
• Mexico’s list of threatened tariffs will bring pain to peddlers of fruit, too.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• All the while, Gebert has remained active in hate groups, and his once part-time gig as a peddler of racist dreck has transformed itself into a full-time job.
  — Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
• Technology Many fake news peddlers didn’t care if Trump won or lost the election.
  — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2018
• Caps for Sale’: Adapted from the classic tale, this story goes behind the scenes to weave the tale of a cap peddler’s life, some monkeys and their monkey business.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2018
• All door-to-door salesmen are required to have a peddler permit in Placer County.
  — Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 21 Jan. 2018
• Hans, who doesn’t turn out to be such a great guy, is contrasted with Kristoff (Nicholas Edwards), a hard-working ice peddler, and his reindeer Sven.
  — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 20 June 2024
• Support for the measure grew after two girls from Overton, Texas, had their lemonade stand shut down for lack of peddlers' permit in 2015.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 12 June 2019
• The tradition dates to at least the 17th century, when peddlers sold secondhand books along the Pont Neuf from wooden carts and tables.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• When the courts upheld this law in 1911, the peddlers first went on strike, and then rioted, causing a mass uprising and widespread damages.
  — Kate Wagner, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2018
• After working for a while as a peddler, Abraham made enough money to open his own general store.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022

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