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Example sentences for "business man"

  • On the contrary, it is everywhere and always the interest of the permanent settler and the permanent business man, the man with a stake in the country, which must be considered and which must decide.

  • Of course no business man will go into the Philippines unless it is to his interest to do so; and it is immensely to the interest of the islands that he should go in.

  • For as a business man, I foresee that the passing of any such bill would lead to a complete upset of trade.

  • Paddy loves a glib talker, and a fellow with a good jaw on him would always beat the best business man, even if Paddy were allowed his own choice.

  • And as a business man I think Balfour was fully up to the mark.

  • How can a business man, whose prosperity, whose earthly salvation, necessarily lies in the adversity of some one else, be delicate and chivalrous, or even honest?

  • Madame Geoffrin, you know, was very plebeian; her husband was a business man of some sort.

  • I don't believe he ever budged a hairs-breadth from his original position about wanting to be a preacher and not wanting to be a business man.

  • That poor old man, his father, warped him from his simple, lifelong wish to be a minister, and was trying to make a business man of him.

  • Besides, as an artist he has been done a great deal already; and a commercial state like ours has really more concern in him as a business man.

  • After all, and in spite of my vaunting title, is the man of letters ever a business man?

  • Daunt had been attempting to curb his passion and talk in a business man's tone while on the matter of figures.

  • However, now that you ask me a blunt question, I'm going to reply just as bluntly--but as a business man!

  • That's as far as a business man is expected to go.

  • It was all good music for a business man.

  • Still earlier in his career as a business man he noticed that the local practitioners wrote their prescriptions on odd scraps of paper.

  • His desperate honesty touched Spaulding a trifle; at the risk of not seeming a business man to himself he inclined dubiously to relent, to give Duncan another chance.

  • He says you're a business man, and that he's often thought what a help you must have been to me before you left New York.

  • What would Saskia and Dougal and Sir Archie do without a business man by their side?

  • He was a business man, and there was now something for him to do.

  • But Mr. Nicholson's a business man and he'll do as well.

  • Mr. Fogg a sharp word or two if that gentleman advanced any more of his "business man's reasons" for speed.

  • Seeing that I am not able to deal with you on a business man's basis, I shall handle you as I would handle any other thief.

  • But I am a hustling sort of a business man and I want to get at matters in short order.

  • Oh--a business man in these days can't allow himself to fly to pieces over setbacks.

  • As a gentleman he would have to tell them, because he could not take advantage of their necessities; but, as a business man, he would think it bad business to tell them, or no business at all.

  • He turned to the Altrurian, and then went on: "As I said the other night, this is a business man's country.

  • He wrote a story where the failure of a business man turned on a point just like that you have instanced.

  • If this is a business man's country, and if the professor has nothing in stock but the sort of education that business has no use for, I should suppose that he would want to go into some other line.

  • I've really been a business man to-day, Captain.

  • As a business man it seemed to me that I was in a poor business, with no future.

  • Two and three o'clock is no bedtime hour for a business man.

  • He attended party caucuses and conventions, ran for the state legislature, and sometimes defeated a lawyer or metropolitan 'business man' in the race for a seat in Congress.

  • The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer.

  • The attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis.

  • The merchant at the cross roads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York.

  • To make money, Poe should have been a business man, and he was not so in any sense.

  • Carter, who was about the same sort of a business man as the poet himself, started a periodical which they called the Pioneer.

  • He is going to be a business man, and sets about looking for a place, in a store.

  • He's wise to the fact that a business man's got to have poise these days, and balance.

  • But the old man wanted his son to be a business man, not a crazy, piano-playing galoot.

  • I thought I was talking to a business man.

  • I am simply a business man, and my work is almost wholly for bankers, brokers, manufacturers, merchants and investors.

  • I care not whether he is a doctor, teacher, banker, lawyer, business man or manufacturer.

  • Twenty-five years from now these five churches will be linked up together under a general manager who will not be a parson, but who will be a business man.

  • That afternoon I was talking about the matter with a business man.

  • I formed an instinctive dislike to the man, which probably would not have happened had he been wearing the title for twenty years, or had I met him as a business man, with no thought of the aristocratic honour awaiting him.

  • It may also remove an anarchist hovering about the route of a business man's procession.

  • Nevertheless, as a business man, I am forced to recognise that a large amount of unproductive capital is locked up in that property.

  • At a venture he asked a business man to trust him for the stock in trade.

  • But he resolved that he would be a business man of God.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "business man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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