salesgirl

Example Sentences

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“Bachelor Mother”: Ginger Rogers and David Niven — she’s a salesgirl in a department store, he’s the wealthy store owner — go to a New Year’s Eve party in this charming 1939 rom-com.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022

A salesgirl falls in love with the wealthy heir to the store where she works, so his father orchestrates an elaborate test of her virtue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2020

Ms. Mellon returned to England for boarding school and then skipped college to work as a salesgirl at a London department store.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2016

My mother once took me shopping for clothes when the salesgirl blurted out, “You’re the most beautiful child I’ve ever seen.”

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2016

Oh, I tried to get a job as a salesgirl, but you had to know English for that.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan