How to Use salesperson in a Sentence

salesperson

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  • The company is hiring new salespeople.
  • Leave the store and think it over — away from the gaze of your salesperson.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • But the salesperson pulled out a top and handed it to me.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Or how about the cashier at the grocery store or the salesperson at a clothing store?
    — Shep Hyken, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Once a salesperson asked if my fiancée had any say in the dress.
    — Melissa Kravitz, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2019
  • The salesperson steered me to what had been the case for matching pocket squares.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2020
  • Michelle, 39, from the southern city of Jérémie, used to worked as a teacher’s aide and as a salesperson in Haiti.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 10 June 2024
  • The new salesperson doesn’t know that this is my fifth visit.
    — Andre Aciman, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Every good salesperson knows that the point of a sales call is not to close the sale, but to encourage the next sales call.
    — William Vanderbloemen, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Don’t fall for a salesperson’s charm or too-good-to-be-true promises.
    — Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • And if a salesperson or cashier wants to wear a mask to work because of health concerns, that’s fine, too.
    — Dallas News, 27 June 2021
  • As any savvy salesperson knows, video calls are the new handshake.
    — Tony Uphoff, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Lowe, who works in an auto shop as a parts salesperson, knows his way around a car.
    — Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • In Japan, busy bosses will take a new salesperson with them on a couple of sales calls.
    — Greg Story, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • That salesperson needs to be made aware of the impact of her bad behavior.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • So the princess thanked the salesperson and found a pair of those same exact shoes at a second-hand shoppe, lightly worn, for a mere ten shillings.
    — Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The salesperson stressed that reporters would call the shots on some articles, while the client would have a say on others.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The content should help salespeople sell better and push prospects down the funnel.
    — Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • And yet, a study found that 48 percent of salespeople were actively afraid to do so!
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • That's handy for salespeople who don’t want to repeat the same message every time for cold calls.
    — John Brandon, PCMAG, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Don’t trust a good-looking website or a salesperson who sounds friendly on the phone.
    — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Always shop the sales, and don't be afraid to negotiate with the salesperson.
    — Amy Roberts, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Ask if the salesperson has checked in with the city and gotten proper licensing.
    — Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2019
  • Customers scan menus of prices that Borja hands out, then place their orders in the back, where salespeople bring the goods to two square windows.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 17 May 2023
  • And there is no way for a salesperson to overcome that objection.
    — cleveland, 21 Mar. 2020
  • One of my first jobs was in retail marketing as a salesperson on the storeroom floor.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • To be clear, this salesperson should probably get a raise.
    — Brynn Wallner, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 June 2021
  • Avoid point-of-purchase sales and salespeople who are pushy and eager to take advantage of you.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • All mycelium products were sold out before most of the salespeople even got to see them in person.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Roughly half of the 15 buyers at the project so far are foreigners, according to a salesperson for the project.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023

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