Example sentences for: businessmen

How can you use “businessmen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Businessmen used the patronage of politicians to buy companies at fire sale prices.

  • Despite "catastrophic losses," Bush's oil company was repeatedly bailed out by businessmen who hoped to profit from his influence.

  • Sourced to anonymous intelligence officials who cite an internal Saudi audit of the nation's largest bank, the story says that the transfers are protection money to prevent bin Laden from attacking the Saudi businessmen.

  • The merchant seaman, plantation owners, and businessmen who thronged the city streets also looked for the distraction of other pleasures, and prostitution was rife in the less salubrious parts of town.

  • The reform movement, intent on breaking the political power of the big corporations, attacked corrupt practices in administration, public finances, and banking, but did nothing to oppose the businessmen’s traditional resistance to unions and more liberal labor laws.


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