How to Use peddler in a Sentence

peddler

noun
  • But the president has at long last had his way with peddlers, too.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Moroccan peddlers trudged through hot sand, their backs to their home, just across the sea.
    — Longreads, 29 July 2019
  • Even street peddlers were forced to obtain licenses for a fee.
    — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2017
  • The cannabis peddlers promise to shake up your world, break down barriers and put a big smile on your face.
    — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The unwanted monkeys in his backyard pitch in to help the peddler out of a jam.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Other peddlers of race science also have the ear of those in power on the right.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2024
  • The tactic has gotten smut peddlers in trouble in the past, Catlett said.
    — Julia Scheeres, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2002
  • The police punished the peddlers, the strike was broken, and the law remained on the books.
    — Kate Wagner, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Some of the biggest peddlers of drone hokum have been elected officials.
    — Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Jade peddlers camped out in one empty parking lot, spreading green and yellow stones across the ground.
    — Philip Wen, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • An aged Italian peddler and a white laundryman were stabbed to death by Blacks.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Porter, whose efforts to restore the hotel continued in spite of the fair’s demise, was its peddler.
    — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • In the poem a peddler cuts away some of the clothes of a sleeping old lady, who then cannot recognize herself.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Back in the day, there was a peddler in New York named Amadou Diallo.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The arguments about whether or not the drug peddlers should be banished becomes the central narrative thread.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • All door-to-door salesmen are required to have a peddler permit in Placer County.
    — Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The consequences are visible in the rising numbers of street peddlers in Tehran.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The consequences are visible in the rising numbers of street peddlers in Tehran.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • All the while, Gebert has remained active in hate groups, and his once part-time gig as a peddler of racist dreck has transformed itself into a full-time job.
    — Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
  • The brothers gaze upon commonplace sights of crowds, peddlers, and buskers with fascination and wonder.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Sailer, one of the most prominent peddlers of race science in the United States, has made a career out of noticing things.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Hanaway characterized the stores as deceptive drug peddlers.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Activists say the real death toll may never be known, with users and small-time peddlers gunned down almost daily in mysterious slumland killings blamed on vigilantes and turf wars.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • Kennedy, who has no background in science, medicine, or public health, is well known as an ardent anti-vaccine activist and peddler of conspiracy theories.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Hans, who doesn’t turn out to be such a great guy, is contrasted with Kristoff (Nicholas Edwards), a hard-working ice peddler, and his reindeer Sven.
    — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 20 June 2024
  • He was often called the last of the New Orleans street peddlers, and many feared that his death would mean the end of a tradition that dates back to the late 1800s.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Support for the measure grew after two girls from Overton, Texas, had their lemonade stand shut down for lack of peddlers' permit in 2015.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 12 June 2019
  • The front desk clerk exchanged passports for iron keys while also running a prostitute ring; peddlers roamed the premises hawking lacquer boxes and sports jerseys in garbled English.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Others say a Chicago street peddler named Anthony Ferreri first sliced the beef into paper-thin pieces so 15 pounds could serve 50 people.
    — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026

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