Example sentences for: peddler

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

  • You can't do business from an empty wagon -- an empty peddler's wagon--and if you heed the advice of the other Ralph Emerson, you will hitch your wagon to a star .

  • A piece denounces Alexander Haig for parlaying his brief stint as Ronald Reagan's secretary of state into a career as an international influence peddler.

  • A 32-year-old Jewish housewife who married too young is on vacation in the Catskills with her two kids and mother-in-law when she meets a sexy, young blouse peddler.

  • lettuce peddler, b.

  • Memsahib `term of respect for a European lady,' for example, derives from English ma'am and Hindi sahib `sir, master,' a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah `peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah `person in charge of a particular thing'; chotapeg `half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota `little, small' and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage `commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf `banker, money-lender,' a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age . Combinations of Hindi and Persian elements include:


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