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Example sentences for "salesmen"

Lexicographically close words:
salesgirl; salesgirls; saleslady; salesman; salesmanship; salespeople; salesperson; salesroom; saleswoman; saleswomen
  1. Through his salesmen the packer shows the grocer how to display the coffee on the counter and in the window, and often supplies him with placards and cut-outs featuring his brand.

  2. Membership in the club is limited to those who are contributing to the publicity fund, and to their salesmen and customers.

  3. After his death the place was plastered with signs that called in throaty falsetto at the passer-by, like eager salesmen on the Midway who try to entice people to enter.

  4. In hiring salesmen the owner picked only gentlemen of presence.

  5. Moreover great numbers are clerks and salesmen and thousands are municipal and building contractors.

  6. As compared with their immigrant fathers, the proportion of laborers among the sons of Irishmen is halved, while that of professional men and salesmen is doubled, and that of clerks, copyists, and bookkeepers is trebled.

  7. I convinced him that all successful salesmen worked from early morning till late at night, and that a dollar-a-day hotel, in a small country town, would not be a disgraceful place to spend a Sunday.

  8. Other salesmen made their appearance, some modestly, others with a studied air of confidence, loudly greeting those they knew.

  9. The salesmen naturally humored this ambition of his and every time he made a correct guess they would applaud him without stint, and I would follow their example.

  10. Sometimes he would receive a crowd of salesmen in rapid succession, inspect their merchandise and hear their prices without making any purchase.

  11. Accordingly, I never did so without being conscious of my gestures and trying to make them as "American" as possible The other cloak salesmen I met on the road in those days were mostly representatives of much bigger houses than mine.

  12. The salesmen in our leading houses are expect to be posted, and to act as escorts sad chaperones in this wine-guzzling tour.

  13. Indeed, so much is this disgraceful feature recognized in some large business houses, that the proprietors make an allowance to their salesmen for this purpose.

  14. But those who shirked everything in their youth are compelled to rely on their clerks and salesmen for advice, and are never ready to act when occasions of profit arise.

  15. Salesmen particularly complained of her crankiness and of the unsatisfactory service they got.

  16. Those were the halcyon days, you'll remember, when salesmen went out twice a year and told their customers how many shoes or ships or sewing machines they could have--and when they could have them.

  17. The salesmen were able to dictate when they felt like it.

  18. Valuable men sat around the office mornings and evenings waiting for a chance to dictate to a staff of girls which was measured to fit the average load of the day, but not the rush load of the two hours a day when the salesmen were inside.

  19. In England there are many salesmen who are sincerely fond of art; but seldom of the art of salesmanship.

  20. Stevenson touched on the same insular sentiment when he said that many men he knew, who were meat-salesmen to the outward eye, might in the life of contemplation sit with the saints.

  21. This was interpreted to mean that the firm had no method of knowing what letters were carried by their salesmen and was not responsible for them.

  22. My attention has been called to the fact that salesmen of this company have been exhibiting a letter purporting to show that this department has endorsed their products in the treatment of venereal diseases.

  23. Salesmen of this company have not been exhibiting a “letter purporting to show that this department has endorsed their products in the treatment of venereal diseases,” as stated by Dr.

  24. This term is given to a class of speculating salesmen at Billingsgate market, not recognised as such by the trade, but who get a living by buying large quantities of fish of the salesmen and re-selling it to smaller buyers.

  25. The LGP-30 booth was packed at every show, and the IBM salesmen stood around talking to each other.

  26. One of his two salesmen was ill, and that was why he was so late.

  27. He offered a choice stock of goods, or, rather, his two salesmen did.

  28. A stall, now, at the end of the room under the gallery, with one or two salesmen whom you must recommend to me, General.

  29. What's the use of my keeping a lot of fancy vehicles in my barn when all I have to deal with is a lot of shoe salesmen and floorwalkers?

  30. I asked him to let me offer it to the publishing house with which I was connected, and I recall with interest the comment of the oldest and most experienced of the bookmen and salesmen among us.

  31. The lights of Chatham Square twinkle out now; and here I pause before a feature very peculiar to the Bowery,--one of those large, open shops in which vociferous salesmen address from galleries a motley crowd of men and women.

  32. Other salesmen lean furiously over the gallery railing, flourishing shirts, stockings, and garments of every kind, mentionable and unmentionable, in the faces of the gaping loafers below.

  33. All salesmen are carefully selected; criminals and diseased persons being rigidly excluded.

  34. Commission salesmen at the Halles Centrales must be French citizens of unblemished record and must give a bond of not less than $1,000 in proof of solvency.

  35. If you take to it at all I guarantee that in six months you will know more about the internal combustion motor and automobile design in general than any two salesmen on my father's staff.

  36. I can't waste the whole morning discussing methods of training salesmen in the way they should go.

  37. Salesmen are born, not made--the real high-grade ones.

  38. It is an organized flying wedge of one hundred thousand salesmen who have picked each other out for driving into the attention of a nation, national ideas.

  39. When the American became insistent all the French salesmen resigned in a body.

  40. It has created a very bad impression and I am afraid that henceforth your salesmen will find it much harder to operate in my country.

  41. Our salesmen must know the French language and sympathise with the French temperament.

  42. Field, be deputed in behalf of himself and fellow-salesmen to make such presentation as the committee shall decide on.

  43. That which took place in December, 1850, was signalized by the proceedings thus officially recited: A meeting of the salesmen in the employ of Messrs.

  44. It is a motley crowd that one meets there, where purchasers and salesmen mingle promiscuously.

  45. American salesmen are clever and capable, and well know how to recommend whatever they have to sell.

  46. Salesmen and commercial travellers in the United States have certainly learned the art of speaking.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salesmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.