How to Use saleswoman in a Sentence

saleswoman

noun
  • But the saleswoman assured me these weren’t just any sandals.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2023
  • Then there’s the scene with the breast pump that the saleswoman says is so powerful that — what is the line?
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 May 2024
  • The saleswoman put her hand in the bucket, swirled around and emerged with the number 32.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • So did the young saleswoman in the store upstairs with the stylish Japanese wares.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 May 2020
  • One was working as a saleswoman for three weeks at a pop-up shop that sold expensive leather jackets.
    — Kate King, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
  • In Jill Lindsey, the lone saleswoman was fixing her hair in a mirror.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 16 July 2021
  • Eva is a brilliant saleswoman, and Lester loves cooking and spending time with his children.
    — Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The two groups of diners overlapped for 21 minutes before the saleswoman and her guest left.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Then Anzora turned to the saleswoman, who caught his drift and smirked, trying her best to stay neutral.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • The student left the restaurant five minutes after the saleswoman entered.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The saleswoman didn’t have any information, but did offer plenty of free postcards.
    — Jack Nicas, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • They were seated nearly 16 feet from the infected saleswoman.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Ann visits a department store with her mother, where saleswomen attempt to sell her on a variety of dresses and belts.
    — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • That’s when the officer discovered a second saleswoman dressed the same and doing the same thing in the neighborhood.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
  • As for the libations, saleswomen carrying kegs of beer on their backs walk around the stadiums, are ready to serve up cold pints to spectators.
    — Coy Wire and Vivien Jones, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
  • This new patient was a 23-year-old saleswoman with mild symptoms of headache and fever who had not had contact with anyone with an infection.
    — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Is Gwyneth Paltrow a cynical snake-oil saleswoman or a visionary?
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The mattress saleswoman Mare and Ned deal with doesn’t have the power to make the company honor the spirit of the law.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That same year, male doctors earned 13 percent more than female medics and a salesman earned 27 percent more than a saleswoman.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Leeds was working as a traveling paper saleswoman, which at the time made her among the few women traveling for work, let alone traveling on her own.
    — Shira Levine, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
  • In Moshoqueque, a market in Chiclayo, a saleswoman shows me pure Andean bear fat in a half-liter plastic bottle.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • Drama freeflows like snow off an ice sculpture when a makeup saleswoman (Dianne Wiest) brings home a lovable outcast who just needs a hand.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • But the roof garden where saleswomen (referred to as salesgirls back then) took the air and promenaded a century ago is still there, latticework and all.
    — Ralph Blumenthal and Sandra Roff, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The artist Pat Ast worked as a saleswoman (and, later, for one of Halston’s early fashion shows, leaped out of a giant cake).
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • The shapely 24-year-old advertising saleswoman wore a black swimsuit with a white Playboy bunny across the front.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • While most of her family members were too proud to get jobs, a teenage Vélez did just that, supporting the family by working as a saleswoman in a department store.
    — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Bao Jimi, a saleswoman at a nonwoven fabric exporter in Shanghai, said they were also caught off guard by the sudden rise in the yuan’s value last year.
    — Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The groom’s mother is a saleswoman at Bombay Bazaar, an apparel wholesaler in Miami, which his father owns.
    — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Finding answers could help women like Sheryl Greene, 50, a fiber optics saleswoman in Roanoke, Va.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
  • The two fall in love, and begin to develop a new skincare cream together called Noori, using Matthew’s mushrooms and Ye-jin’s gift as a saleswoman.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026

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