pitchman

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Recent Examples of pitchman Red Barber called the action, and while there were no commercial breaks, the sportscaster served as a pitchman for Wheaties between innings, slicing a banana into a heaping bowl of the Breakfast of Champions™ while Leo Durocher sidled up to the batter’s box. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Aug. 2025 The beloved pitchman died in his sleep at just 50 years old. Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 June 2025 His next act is to star as the pitchman for the dry vermouth brand Martini, following in the footsteps of another Hollywood star, George Clooney. John Kell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025 In addition to being the host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon is a prolific pitchman, starring in ads for State Farm, Pepsi and Capital One, among others. Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pitchman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitchman
Noun
  • Why are so many celebrities emerging as liquor pitchmen and pitchwomen?
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Viola Davis was a rousing pitchwoman for The Woman King at TIFF, and the 57-year-old Oscar winner’s transformation into a brawny action star should not be underestimated.
    Vulture, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • While the real-life Warrens undoubtedly were hucksters and snake-oil salesmen, the fictional ones are an intensely likable couple whose love for each other is far firmer than the veil between the living and the dead.
    Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • How to tell a true from a false prophet, the real Christ, returned in glory, from a dime-store messiah with a huckster’s charm?
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Talking with the salesgirl, asking her to bring us things in a size that would be a better fit.
    Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler Department store salesgirl and photographer Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is instantly enthralled by a new customer, the wealthy (almost) divorcée Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett).
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • The saleslady wears a glitter cloth mask, long glitter fingernails and a blond dye job that’s tinted her scalp.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Molly and the saleslady peruse the sequins while my son grows increasingly dysregulated.
    Melissa Petro, Time, 3 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • Or don’t marry anybody and find your way into a bohemian tale or a proto-noir or a shopgirl story or some other formula.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Bronte worked as a shopgirl at Mooney’s bookshop while Joe was restoring it (a throwback to season 1) and seemingly fell in love with him while trying to expose him for the murder of Beck, the first love interest and obsession of Joe’s from that season.
    Charley Ross, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Pitchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitchman. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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