sales pitch

noun

: a speech that is given in order to persuade someone to buy something
We got the whole sales pitch from the car salesman.
sometimes used figuratively
It's not clear if voters liked the governor's sales pitch enough to reelect her.

Examples of sales pitch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His sales pitch hinges on the duo’s participation in the Whitney Biennial of 2002 (a performance that involved washing visitors’ feet and giving them bandages and hugs). Travis Diehl, New York Times, 28 May 2024 The investment memo is almost the exact opposite of a sales pitch. Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang, TIME, 22 May 2024 Biden also joked about Trump's ongoing hush money trial in New York and his recent Bible sales pitch. Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024 The report says Microsoft’s sales pitch of Azure OpenAI’s tools was delivered in October 2023, likely hoping to capitalize on the U.S. military’s growing interest in using generative AI for warfare. Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024 There’s no real formula for the perfect sales pitch. Sho Dewan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Trump's sales pitch focuses on bringing religion back to America. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024 Kelly Cunningham, San Diego Institute for Economic Research YES: The typical sales pitch of needing to spend money to save money never goes away. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2024 And with that, Legend launched into his sales pitch. Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024

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