How to Use wheeler-dealer in a Sentence

wheeler-dealer

noun

• Imagine what a shrewd, wheeler-dealer type could do with the Pirates.
  — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
• Nelson is a Willy Loman, a failing wheeler-dealer and big talker with no game to back him up.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
• Bordeaux’s rise was fuelled by Claude Bez, a wheeler-dealer who ran an accounting firm.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• Foremost, general manager John Schneider, 54, showed he’s evolved into a top-tier talent man and wheeler-dealer.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
• The Padres are fascinating because their team president, AJ Preller, is a wheeler-dealer always willing to trade his best players and best prospects.
  — Jim Bowden, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• His father was a wheeler-dealer who lived by quick wits and the sweat of his brow, dabbling in bootlegged sake, swine farming, loan sharking, and later pachinko parlors—Japan’s ubiquitous low-stakes gambling game of clattering steel ball bearings.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026