How to Use salesman in a Sentence

salesman

noun
  • He was the company's best salesman last year.
  • Bro looks like my car salesman.
    — Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Scams evolved from the snake oil salesman at the door to mail to email.
    — Vijay Pande, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • Or maybe there’s a hint of truth, and not all car salesmen are like that.
    — Summer Ballentine, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Need a dad to deal with a sexist car salesman?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The door-to-door salesman shows where a bullet hit his tablet.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The smile that the lab had designed wasn’t meant for some toothy ad salesman.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
  • Coach Prime is the greatest salesman in the sport right now.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For the first years, Wetzel took on the role of lead salesman.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • One day a vacuum salesman came to my door.
    — Dan Hyman, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2026
  • What salesman would have a job if 20% of their sales lost money?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2025
  • The salesman explained that this was not an option.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The software salesman has worked hard in his career and even just bought his very first house.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • Wheel of Fortune is ready to take a new vowel salesman for a spin.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • The would-be salesman was told to stop until the group had a proper permit.
    — cleveland, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Jim, meanwhile, is back on TV, the same old snake-oil salesman.
    — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
  • While Rock’s star was on the rise, Hart was working as a shoe salesman.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Trump, ever the salesman, found more dumb money in the stock market.
    — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The rat-a-tat noise sounded like a determined door-to-door salesman.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The house in Fort Worth, Texas, where a door-to-door salesman was shot.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Sneakers have been a part of the game since Chuck Taylor was a salesman.
    — Jarrel Harris, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Ortega also held the car door shut to keep the salesman trapped inside.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2026
  • First the salesman refused to quote a price, and then the manager refused.
    — Sally Schwartz, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • One inspired the salesman who talks with Naomi Kawase.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Kortz spent much of his career working as a cattle salesman.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Woerner, the car salesman, sold the Wynns their home on a land contract, too.
    — cincinnati.com, 13 June 2019
  • After sitting in the car with the engine running, the salesman and his client both stepped out of the sedan.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2020
  • By the end of the first week, the salesmen at TSC in Hanover knew us by name.
    — Lois Szymanski, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The Jay Kelly star reflected on one of his first jobs as a shoe salesman.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Dec. 2025
  • When the salesman told the suspect to return to the dealership, the man refused.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020

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