salesman
Example Sentences
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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.
He is widely seen as a gifted salesman with a knack for jump-starting the sort of viral moments on social media that double as shrewd self-promotion.
Or as my father, the car salesman, would describe it, “they were negotiating.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.