traveling salesman
Example Sentences
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His father, Charles Whittaker, was a traveling salesman for a maker of burglar alarms and bank vaults.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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
Her father, Floyd, worked as a traveling salesman, and her mother, Noreen, was a volunteer at a U.S.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 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
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
