plural salesmen
: a person (especially a man) whose job is to sell a product or service in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone compare salesperson, saleswoman
Examples of salesman in a Sentence
He was the company's best salesman last year.
a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch
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Robert Chan, at the time a valedictorian candidate at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, orchestrated Tay’s killing after Chan and Tay had a falling out over what had been a mutual plan to rob a computer salesman.
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Sean Emery, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
One is the great salesman, promoter, and the other sort of what [the Colonel] thought was a carnival act but turned out to be sort of Orpheus.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
Like Friedmann, Hall had a difficult relationship with his emotionally distant father, a salesman and a Nashville city councilman.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
One is the great salesman, promoter, and the other sort of what [the Colonel] thought was a carnival act but turned out to be sort of Orpheus.
—Peter Larsen, Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
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Sean Emery, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
One is the great salesman, promoter, and the other sort of what [the Colonel] thought was a carnival act but turned out to be sort of Orpheus.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
Like Friedmann, Hall had a difficult relationship with his emotionally distant father, a salesman and a Nashville city councilman.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
One is the great salesman, promoter, and the other sort of what [the Colonel] thought was a carnival act but turned out to be sort of Orpheus.
—Peter Larsen, Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for salesman
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salesman. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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salesman
noun
sales·man
-mən 
: one who sells in a specific territory or in a store
salesmanship
noun
-ˌship
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