How to Use salespeople in a Sentence

salespeople

plural noun
  • The rest of the morning is a blur of EVs and salespeople.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The end of the year and the start of the new is one of the busiest and most stressful times for marketers and salespeople alike.
    David Villa, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • For salespeople and the rest of us, however, there is such a thing as too much Zoom.
    Will Knight, Wired, 9 Oct. 2020
  • One of my top salespeople and one of our key support staffers have been feuding over the last few weeks.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The question is whether the resort town will have enough cooks and cleaners, servers and salespeople to handle the crowds.
    Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2021
  • Shoppers have no idea that the stores’s salespeople are all hired, trained and employed by Leap.
    Anne Kadet, WSJ, 22 June 2021
  • Car salespeople sometimes have to sell a certain number of cars by the end of the month, quarter, or year.
    Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The icon and pals are basically the best salespeople out there, too.
    Leah Melby Clinton, ELLE, 8 Nov. 2022
  • For salespeople, the moment of truth comes when a customer threatens to walk.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Few salespeople on the ground in Japan expect anything to happen fast and at scale.
    Greg Story, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • At my company, all our salespeople stick to the scripts.
    Carl Gould, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The best salespeople gain a deep understanding of their prospects' needs and wants.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Tad Friend’s safari into the world of modern-day door-to-door salespeople?
    Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
  • He was struck by a sense of desperation among the salespeople.
    Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Now, salespeople have had to sell them at a loss of up to thousands of dollars per vehicle.
    Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The bond markets were at the time ruled by the legions of salespeople and traders working for big banks and spending their days yelling over the phone to deal debt from one side to the other.
    Declan Harty, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Night Shift has nine salespeople here, while Sheehan has 150.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • None of the salespeople volunteered the details a consumer would need to make an informed choice.
    Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The best actors are, above all else, cunning salespeople.
    Jeva Lange, The Week, 10 Sep. 2021
  • For Democrats, the best salespeople may not be the political leaders at all.
    Katie Glueck, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • That’s a nirvana that most salespeople never reach, and Reda knows why.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2020
  • My colleagues then compared the trajectories of salespeople who played the game with those who didn’t.
    Katy Milkman, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • Jobs are open for salespeople, store managers and stockers.
    Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2021
  • Have your design team shadow your salespeople and score themselves on the skills below.
    Yamini Virani, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • Three hundred of the new salespeople will work out of the Dallas office to sell the Revolut Business product.
    Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 4 May 2021
  • The vigor of real estate salespeople and the chambers of commerce were pitched at the middle classes.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Dealerships laid off thousands of salespeople at the start of the pandemic.
    Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The company still had salespeople going door-to-door earlier this week, but a spokesman said Wednesday that had come to an end.
    Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Today’s buyers prefer to learn about products on their own, rather than engage with salespeople right from the start.
    Scott Castle, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The ad was for the weekly newspaper itself, which was looking for salespeople.
    Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2021

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