Get to know Salesmen better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Salesmen in a sentence
Salesmen meaning
plural of salesman
Using Salesmen
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of salesman
- In the example corpus, salesmen often appears in combinations such as: salesmen who, travelling salesmen, salesmen for.
Context around Salesmen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Salesmen
- In this selection, "salesmen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, oil, travelling, traveling, working, makes and earned stand out and add context to how "salesmen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acts as salesmen for spirituality and and fellow salesmen began calling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "salesmen" sits close to words such as abominable, abstracts and aceh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with salesmen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It can’t all be slick snake-oil salesmen in suits. (11 words)
My belief is that theater exhibitors are like used car salesmen. (11 words)
Roy and Samantha's experience was with salesmen working for separate companies. (12 words)
He worked at Clark as a computer software analyst for 30 years and was a computer genius who, along with his team in the days of punched card mainframes, accomplished things that the IBM hardware salesmen said weren’t possible! (40 words)
And this is something that really helps Mark Zuckerberg when one of his salesmen makes a sales call to an advertiser and the advertiser says, why should I pay a 40% premium to advertise on Facebook? (36 words)
Johnson said that while Chabad traditionally acts as “salesmen for spirituality,” he’s witnessed more students approaching him to take on mitzvot, like hanging up mezuzot, wrapping tefillin and joining Shabbat dinner, than ever before. (35 words)
And this is something that really helps Mark Zuckerberg when one of his salesmen makes a sales call to an advertiser and the advertiser says, why should I pay a 40% premium to advertise on Facebook? (36 words)
He worked at Clark as a computer software analyst for 30 years and was a computer genius who, along with his team in the days of punched card mainframes, accomplished things that the IBM hardware salesmen said weren’t possible! (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
It is thought the phrases were popularised by travelling salesmen, who either invented them as a game or else as a way to confuse locals.
Johnson said that while Chabad traditionally acts as “salesmen for spirituality,” he’s witnessed more students approaching him to take on mitzvot, like hanging up mezuzot, wrapping tefillin and joining Shabbat dinner, than ever before.
Set in a retro-future world, the sci-fi dramedy follows his character, Jack, and other salesmen who are tasked with selling lunar timeshares to gullible and desperate customers.
Traveling salesmen are akin to gamblers, Crudup argued, always playing the odds, always counting on the big win.
What the people want is to stop the boats and to tell overpaid crisp salesmen to put a sock in it.
And this is something that really helps Mark Zuckerberg when one of his salesmen makes a sales call to an advertiser and the advertiser says, why should I pay a 40% premium to advertise on Facebook?
Cash prizes were paid to newsboys for each new subscriber they brought in, and the top three salesmen earned bonus prizes in addition.
I was astonished to find that one player had invested £30,000, on the basis of the pitch from these snake oil salesmen.
Billed as the city’s largest parade ever, it featured military planes and aggressive war-bond salesmen working the crowds, in scenes that graced the front pages of the evening papers.
In fact, Kuhlman was one of the Bruins’ salesmen as Ahcan was weighing his options.
It can’t all be slick snake-oil salesmen in suits.
My belief is that theater exhibitors are like used car salesmen.
The crowds of people who came to Berman’s Chop House were big-time athletes, newspaper men and women, visiting celebrities and many salesmen … A sort of New York’s Toots Shor’s.
We’re a nation of preachers and salesmen, as they always say,” said Jos Versteeg, an analyst at Amsterdam-based InsingerGilissen private bank.
We would be visited every week by salesmen for the record labels, and they’d bring us the promo records to listen to.
Drivers will save around £165m a year under a crackdown on certain types of commission that give salesmen and brokers an incentive to overcharge customers.
He worked at Clark as a computer software analyst for 30 years and was a computer genius who, along with his team in the days of punched card mainframes, accomplished things that the IBM hardware salesmen said weren’t possible!
Immediately after the explosion, Mr. Fazelyar’s assistant and fellow salesmen began calling his phone repeatedly to see if was safe.
Roy and Samantha's experience was with salesmen working for separate companies.
Sigman notes that, even in their heyday, motels “had a very seedy reputation (of) insurance salesmen taking their secretaries to motels.
Common combinations with salesmen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- salesmen who 3×
- travelling salesmen 2×
- salesmen for 2×
- salesmen to 2×
- oil salesmen 2×
- salesmen working 2×
- salesmen as 2×
- snake-oil salesmen 2×
- car salesmen 2×
- by salesmen 2×