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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At the start of Bloodline, a former used car salesman, Winston Alcorn, has moved his wife, Mandy, and their two young sons from Lexington, Kentucky, to rural Lebanon, Tennessee.
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Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
How the hostage crisis began Al Bodnar, a Good Guys salesman saw the hostage takers outside the store shortly before the incident began.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Levy, who spent more than three decades climbing from ad salesman to president of Turner Broadcasting, helped secure and renew Turner’s NBA rights, building Inside the NBA into the rare postgame show that, as Bill Simmons puts it, occasionally improved ratings for the actual game.
—Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 31 Mar. 2026
Carrying $14 and two shirts — one of which was far too big for him, his daughter said — Jarad connected with a contact person in Manhattan and began working as a door-to-door salesman in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
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Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
How the hostage crisis began Al Bodnar, a Good Guys salesman saw the hostage takers outside the store shortly before the incident began.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Levy, who spent more than three decades climbing from ad salesman to president of Turner Broadcasting, helped secure and renew Turner’s NBA rights, building Inside the NBA into the rare postgame show that, as Bill Simmons puts it, occasionally improved ratings for the actual game.
—Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 31 Mar. 2026
Carrying $14 and two shirts — one of which was far too big for him, his daughter said — Jarad connected with a contact person in Manhattan and began working as a door-to-door salesman in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 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 5 Apr. 2026.
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salesman
noun
sales·man
-mən 
: one who sells in a specific territory or in a store
salesmanship
noun
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