Example Sentences

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On social media, chains are trying to turn their top executives into pitchmen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Booking.com has enlisted the Muppets to get you to rent an all-inclusive in the Bahamas, and they score some points for bringing on Statler and Waldorf as pitchmen.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025

Let us not speak of them in the same category as true pitchmen.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

As the industry boomed, he became one of its most successful and charismatic pitchmen.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

He cried for himself and for his family—for his parents, who had lived their whole lives in a kind of dreamless and embittered sleep, haunted by phantasms and suckered by the empty promises of pitchmen.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson