Example sentences for: hucksters

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

  • "Stock Hucksters Thrive on the Web," said the front page of the New York Times yesterday.

  • David Denby argued in a New Yorker article earlier this year that they face a choice of being either hucksters or cranks.

  • It may be symptomatic of such losses that today the adverb of choice is clearly, used even more often than the hucksters' Free! , and, since clarity of expression and thought is seldom evident, this frequent repetition of clearly can be seen as a kind of mantra, a prayer that begs our indulgence, asks us to take the wish for the deed, and, what is far worse, seeks to convict us of ignorance and stupidity should we look elsewhere for enlightenment.

  • The worst hucksters are the reviewers who spend their weekends on previewing junkets in New York and Los Angeles.

  • In Frederic Wakeman's 1946 novel, The Hucksters , the hero, played by Clark Gable in the film version, is a tough-guy creative whiz who gives up on advertising as soon as he realizes that he's genuinely afraid of losing the big soap account.


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