traveling salesman
Example Sentences
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But as a traveling salesman across the South, he came to understand that winning his constituents’ hearts and minds meant winning on the football field.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
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
His father was a traveling salesman who later worked for Kellogg’s, and his mother was a homemaker.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2022
“Death of a Salesman,” often regarded as one of the greatest American plays, is about a traveling salesman whose career, and mental state, are falling apart.
From New York Times • May 2, 2022
Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
