How to Use salaryman in a Sentence

salaryman

noun
  • The model of the salaryman who enjoys a job for life has broken down.
    — The Economist, 27 July 2019
  • But, for me, those salarymen with their briefcases seemed like outlandish outliers.
    — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Tokyo is among several cities with helplines and websites that try to reach shut-ins, who range from teenage school dropouts to salarymen who have been sacked.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Then, the next player, a 30-something salaryman in suit and tie, moves to the console for his lesson.
    — Chris Goto-Jones, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Two Indian restaurants glowed next door, beside a man grilling eel under a tarp for some salarymen.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The story focuses on a salaryman who finds an exciting new side to life while under siege from zombies.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Our hapless salaryman protagonist wakes up to find a metal screw protruding from his cheek.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • For decades the government pushed industrial growth, so the country’s cities filled up with drab business hotels that catered to armies of salarymen.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The 48-year-old salaryman started fishing as a hobby during the pandemic.
    — Hanako Lowry, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • Forlorn salarymen donned their usual dark suits and loitered in parks, too humiliated to tell their families they’d been laid off.
    — Michael Schuman, Bloomberg.com, 29 June 2017
  • Two years ago, Kazushige Nishida, a Tokyo salaryman in his sixties, started renting a part-time wife and daughter.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • While some izakaya skew fancy and others grungy, Shirube is an egalitarian affair where the tired salarymen and the local cool kids can all take off their shoes and down a beer.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The noodles are a staple among construction and factory workers, salarymen, and students in search of inexpensive meals.
    — John Yoon, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • Japan was once renowned for the mutual loyalty of its companies and salarymen, who could plausibly aspire to lifetime employment at a single firm.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • An autopsy soon revealed that the salaryman died from cyanide poisoning, CNN reported.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There, a listless, middle-aged salaryman named Alex (played by Will Arnett) rediscovers himself as a stand-up comic.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The imperial family holds less sway over Japanese society than the average salaryman, who at least can vote in elections.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
  • In a sea of gray-toned suits and uniforms, the woman trying to soothe her crying baby comes across as an outlier even before a belligerent young salaryman starts screaming at her for disturbing the peace.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Behind these diners, Japanese salarymen and expats in business attire crowded over two oak barrels serving as standing tables.
    — Chaney Kwak, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Shinjuku is a massive office complex, so its commercial areas are catered to entertain flocks of Japanese salarymen after office hours.
    — Crista Priscilla, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Young South Koreans are now more likely to aspire to artistic and creative careers than to jobs as salarymen in large corporate conglomerates.
    — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In the dark after-work hours, its tiny bars, ramen counters, karaoke boxes, and hostess spots were crammed with salarymen spending an extra few hours laughing at their superiors’ jokes or drinking off the stress of their jobs.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2018
  • Karaoke became a Japanese obsession in the 1970s, associated with hard-drinking salarymen kicking back after work with sake and song.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The story unfolds in Enoshima, Japan, where a middle-aged salaryman, unable to submit his resignation letter, meets a heartbroken young Korean man at a ramen shop.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
  • With postwar economic growth and the rise of corporate culture, ie households became less common, while apartment-dwelling nuclear households—consisting of a salaryman, a housewife, and their children—proliferated.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • In Japan, the first capsule hotel was built in the city of Osaka in 1979, primarily to serve as an inexpensive overnight option for salarymen who worked late and preferred to stay out drinking and socializing rather than spending more money commuting home.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2025
  • In Otsuki’s collection, elements of the Japanese salaryman mixed with the urbanity of Gere’s Julian Kay create a compelling blend of references that ultimately play to each designer’s strength.
    — Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Across a 45-year career in cinema, Yakusho has worked with every major Japanese director of his generation and inhabited over 80 characters, spanning salarymen, samurai, gangsters, cops, seducers and everymen of all stripes.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Following Magnetic Rose was the entirely different and eerily upbeat Stink Bomb, which dealt with a salaryman in a laboratory inadvertently letting loose a devastating biological weapon.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 21 June 2021

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