salesman
Example Sentences
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The former, which Miller once considered calling “The Inside of His Head,” is fluidly constructed, playing fast and loose with time as it tracks the disintegrating mental life of down-and-out salesman Willy Loman.
From Los Angeles Times
The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.
Dear Willem, I thought, as I stepped back inside and closed the door, he was about as good a salesman of the church as Father was of watches.
From Literature
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Mr. Lew knew everything about the pieces, but he wasn’t the most enterprising salesman.
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“Wait, is this Delivrd?” one salesman said, suddenly aware he was on speakerphone in front of an audience.
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