as in clerk
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch
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Pennies from Heaven was based on British writer Dennis Potter’s postmodern TV series about the morbid inner life of a Depression-era sheet music salesman named Arthur (played by Steve Martin).
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Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
The advertisements, typically nestled inside popular magazines and supermarket tabloids, tended to address readers with the smarmy cadence of a door-to-door salesman, hinting at the possibility of a big payday.
—Luke Savage, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 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
Detroit rep favorite Antoine McKay, always dependable and able to mine great humor from even the most serious moments, brings warmth and belly laughs to the part of salesman Russell.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
The advertisements, typically nestled inside popular magazines and supermarket tabloids, tended to address readers with the smarmy cadence of a door-to-door salesman, hinting at the possibility of a big payday.
—Luke Savage, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 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
Detroit rep favorite Antoine McKay, always dependable and able to mine great humor from even the most serious moments, brings warmth and belly laughs to the part of salesman Russell.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for salesman
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