travelling salesman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Pierce stars as the aging travelling salesman Willy Loman and Sharon D Clarke plays his loyal wife, Linda.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022
He was a travelling salesman in the 1960's - making business calls from a phone box after losing his company's premises.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2021
Salim is a travelling salesman, an emigre from Oman stranded in the snow of New York.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2017
A travelling salesman awakens one morning, transformed into an insect.
From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2017
“You are Cyrus Bethman Hardman, United States subject, forty-one years of age, travelling salesman for typewriting ribbons?”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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