How to Use salespeople in a Sentence

salespeople

plural noun
  • No window displays to lure you in, no salespeople to snag you.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 2 May 2020
  • One of my top salespeople and one of our key support staffers have been feuding over the last few weeks.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
  • These are local dealership salespeople who have been asked to staff the brand's booth for the day.
    — Ronald Montoya, Edmunds, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2018
  • For salespeople and the rest of us, however, there is such a thing as too much Zoom.
    — Will Knight, Wired, 9 Oct. 2020
  • For salespeople, the moment of truth comes when a customer threatens to walk.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The icon and pals are basically the best salespeople out there, too.
    — Leah Melby Clinton, ELLE, 8 Nov. 2022
  • He was struck by a sense of desperation among the salespeople.
    — Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The best salespeople gain a deep understanding of their prospects' needs and wants.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The end of the year and the start of the new is one of the busiest and most stressful times for marketers and salespeople alike.
    — David Villa, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Elsewhere, salespeople were waiting at their desks for buyers to show up.
    — Rebecca Smith, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2020
  • Shoppers have no idea that the stores’s salespeople are all hired, trained and employed by Leap.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 22 June 2021
  • Now, salespeople have had to sell them at a loss of up to thousands of dollars per vehicle.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Be on your guard about impetuous spending sprees and salespeople who try to persuade you.
    — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
  • Few salespeople on the ground in Japan expect anything to happen fast and at scale.
    — Greg Story, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Car salespeople sometimes have to sell a certain number of cars by the end of the month, quarter, or year.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Have your design team shadow your salespeople and score themselves on the skills below.
    — Yamini Virani, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • Most people know about one of the greatest salespeople of all time, Steve Jobs.
    — Tiernan Ray, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2019
  • That distortion stems in part from the way Sprint credits its salespeople.
    — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 6 May 2019
  • The question is whether the resort town will have enough cooks and cleaners, servers and salespeople to handle the crowds.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2021
  • That’s a nirvana that most salespeople never reach, and Reda knows why.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Tad Friend’s safari into the world of modern-day door-to-door salespeople?
    — Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
  • With the start of spring and warmer weather, door-to-door salespeople will become more prevalent throughout our area.
    — Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018
  • None of the salespeople volunteered the details a consumer would need to make an informed choice.
    — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Current customers are your best salespeople.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • My colleagues then compared the trajectories of salespeople who played the game with those who didn’t.
    — Katy Milkman, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • Today’s buyers prefer to learn about products on their own, rather than engage with salespeople right from the start.
    — Scott Castle, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • That's prompting a surge in jobs in the cannabis trade, ranging from retail salespeople to accountants.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 July 2019
  • For Democrats, the best salespeople may not be the political leaders at all.
    — Katie Glueck, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The ad was for the weekly newspaper itself, which was looking for salespeople.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The spending that lasts is the part regulators require, not the part salespeople pitch.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

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