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
  • Cashiers and retail salesperson are two of the most common jobs in the country.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Once done with your test drive, ask your salesperson to give you a few minutes to reflect on the drive.
    — Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Trump may be one of few salespeople who can sell the G-20’s potential to broad swaths of the United States.
    — Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
  • There are salespeople with lousy products that have to over-sell.
    — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Airbus’s top salesperson, John Leahy, said at the time.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Barth was chatting with a Nordstrom's salesperson when a wave of shoppers ran through the store.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Presumably, all of those new salespeople will be out, well, in force.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The ability to balance the wants and needs of customers, salespeople, the product team and the business overall is challenging, but the greatest CMOs create strong partnerships and empower every team member to perform at their absolute best.
    — Tifenn Dano Kwan, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

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