traveling salesman
Example Sentences
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The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Chuck Taylor was a semi-pro basketball player and traveling salesman for the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in the early 1920s when he designed the shoe.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025
She was the youngest of three children of Salomon Minco, a traveling salesman, and Grietje Minco-Van Hoorn.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2023
Thus, the idea of the traveling salesman Hill swindling the locals into investing in a boys’ marching band, with the intent of skipping town before teaching them a note, held up as well.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022
It was late afternoon, and the driver of the car, a middle-aged traveling salesman who shall here be known as Mr. Bell, was tired.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
