How to Use salesman in a Sentence

salesman

noun

• He was the company's best salesman last year.
• Scams evolved from the snake oil salesman at the door to mail to email.
  — Vijay Pande, Fortune, 13 June 2023
• The house in Fort Worth, Texas, where a door-to-door salesman was shot.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
• The door-to-door salesman shows where a bullet hit his tablet.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
• The Fox News host met the salesman by chance in 1997 and the pair wed the following year.
  — Jessica Sager, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
• While Rock’s star was on the rise, Hart was working as a shoe salesman.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
• But as in the movie, Elvis becomes subsumed by the salesman.
  — Vogue, 29 May 2022
• Of course, Biden isn't at his peak as a public salesman.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 27 Nov. 2021
• Jim, meanwhile, is back on TV, the same old snake-oil salesman.
  — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
• Wheel of Fortune is ready to take a new vowel salesman for a spin.
  — Vulture, 27 June 2023
• It’s not so great for Al, but worse for the accordion salesman.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• His father was a salesman; his mother worked on the farm.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
• The software salesman has worked hard in his career and even just bought his very first house.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• Tim Allen plays a toy salesman who, through a wacky turn of events, winds up taking up the reins as the next Santa Claus.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2022
• Amir, 30, a jewelry salesman at the Grand Bazaar, was blunter.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2021
• The two soon married and moved to Chicago, where Farson went to work as a truck salesman.
  — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
• But the son of a used car salesman had bigger ambitions.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Michael Yang, an Evergrande salesman in the southern city of Chongqing, is one of them.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• Vogel, who owned a trucking business in New York and was a salesman, worked on the race for 10 more years.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• The rat-a-tat noise sounded like a determined door-to-door salesman.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 23 Nov. 2021
• First the salesman refused to quote a price, and then the manager refused.
  — Sally Schwartz, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• The Ram Temple was only the beginning, said the 27-year-old tire salesman.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• Khalilzad is a little more than six feet tall and has the quick, expressive smile of an ace salesman.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
• Shallow people focus instead on style, and on the glib talk of the snake oil salesman.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• Gong Yoo appeared as a salesman who played the paper flipping game ddakji with Gi-hun in the first episode of Squid Game.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 27 Dec. 2021
• My mom was an ER nurse, and my dad was an insurance salesman.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
• His father was a trumpeter in the big-band era and later a car salesman, and his mother was a nurse.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• Nordstrom was promoted to shoe salesman at the age of 14.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 May 2024
• Her mother became a chef’s apprentice, and her father landed a job as a Wrigley chewing gum salesman.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2024
• Abbe Lowell, the defense attorney, argued to jurors that his client had completed a rehab program in L.A. and that the gun salesman did not perceive Biden to be under the influence or glassy-eyed.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025