travelling salesman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A travelling salesman by day, Williams fulfilled his racing ambitions at the weekend and, aged just 24, he launched his own team, Frank Williams Racing Cars.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2021
A. P. Carter, the band’s patriarch, had worked as a travelling salesman, during which time he roamed central Appalachia, knocking on doors and “collecting” old folk songs.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019
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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