How to Use salesmanship in a Sentence

salesmanship

noun

• As in drug dealing, the free taste is the key to good salesmanship.
  — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• This is not good salesmanship, but the songs are strong.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2022
• The pop-up shops of the past were often unattractive and lacked salesmanship.
  — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• But some of this was also a feature of a sport that doesn’t require salesmanship in most parts of the world.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• That kind of salesmanship has entered the nightlife culture in Goa, as well.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2023
• That means there has to be a bit of salesmanship that goes on when players meet with teams behind closed doors.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• That knack for salesmanship could translate to the car business.
  — The Economist, 27 Sep. 2017
• At 41, Manning is done with football (on the field, at least) but likely has years of salesmanship to go.
  — Jenny Green, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
• But this is its own form of denial and masks the real reason: poor salesmanship.
  — Stewart Easterby, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• For one thing, the phrase calls to mind the snake-oil salesmanship that has animated Trump’s rise to power.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 23 Jan. 2017
• His father taught him the salesmanship that would serve him later in life: Get people to try the product.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• This is where your salesmanship comes in handy—know your subject inside out.
  — Manish Gupta, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• What does his impressive salesmanship mean for India, the region, and the world?
  — Ravi Agrawal, CNN, 6 July 2017
• As Obamacare slips into the next world, no one should lie awake thinking salesmanship could have saved it.
  — Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 7 Jan. 2017
• Again, Kirby says the salesmanship outstrips the science here.
  — Outside Online, 28 Apr. 2022
• What Del Conte brings to the table is backslapping, my-man salesmanship turned to 11.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2020
• And the piecemeal comfort and convenience options that abound in the competitors can feel like a whole lot of snake oil salesmanship.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Trump is banking on his salesmanship to overcome the bill’s dismal poll numbers.
  — Noah Bierman, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• For Biden, a salesmanship strategy tracks closely to his own stated desire to find the best ways to message his plans.
  — Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Jeff Zeleny, CNN, 20 July 2021
• Trump, a newcomer to elective office but an old hand at salesmanship, broke that mold.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• And both are best known within their industries for their salesmanship.
  — Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 22 July 2017
• To see how Kennedy Space Center is reinventing itself is to see how the engineering and salesmanship go hand in hand.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2015
• Use your knack for charming others as a form of personal salesmanship.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 17 May 2017
• Eataly's Eric Schack took home first place after scoring top marks in tests ranging from aroma and taste to salesmanship and plating.
  — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 6 July 2018
• The company was founded, in 1980, by Mark Hughes, a high-school dropout with a talent for storytelling and salesmanship.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
• Many people described Taylor to me as a good salesman, and a particular kind of salesmanship did seem to shape his version of events.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Are businesses entering a new era of snake (or sn-A.I.-ke) oil salesmanship?
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
• But the Super League is an idea that will return, probably with savvier salesmanship.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2021
• Avoid the digital version of used car salesmanship: poor design and ever poorer language.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• While in high school, Bening did some secretarial work for her father, who was teaching classes on Dale Carnegie’s principles of salesmanship.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024