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• The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.From the entry fat
• Papa also “conscripted” a new “army” of ice cream and ice drop ambulant peddlers.2020, Bartolomea Agatep-Enrico, Under His Wings. From the entry ice drop
• The thug was an acknowledged leg breaker, a shakedown artist, a peddler of violence.1974 September 4, Victor Riesel, “Mob money took Rebozo”, in Rome News-Tribune, US, retrieved 05 Jan 2009, page 4. From the entry leg-breaker
• They were, he knew, often derisively called ‘body snatchers’, ‘head hunters’, ‘flesh peddlers’, and ‘pirates’.1961 June, Fortune, 129/1. From the entry body snatcher
• “You some kind of confidence man or dope peddler or something?1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 330. From the entry pigeon drop
• Despite this short shrift from descendants and historians, the Jewish peddler was a valued person in rural life.2015, Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “A New Life and a New Cause in Dixie”, in Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews…. From the entry wrest
• Nettlers are the mild-mannered poison peddlers of the world.1992, F. Tom Turpin, The Insect Appreciation Digest, page 70. From the entry nettler
• These in turn sold to the public, either through their own shops or through petty retailers and peddlers.1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University…. From the entry Huai-pei
• In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler.1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (3:35 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Narrator (Rod Serling). From the entry frock coat
• I wanted to sully the hedgehog's pudsy, fuddlesome reputation and discover that the females were somehow harlots and the males were skulduggerous peddlers of filth.2014, Jules Howard, “The Greatest Story Never Told” (chapter 12), in Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction, New York City…. From the entry skulduggerous
• The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.2007 January 26, Stephen Holden, “Once Upon a Time in a Very Familiar West”, in New York Times. From the entry witchlike
• To sell liquor to the Indians was against the law but the forts had to resort to it or be outtraded by the peddlers.1947, Jay Monaghan, The Overland Trail, page 252. From the entry outtraded
• Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens, page 9. From the entry fat
• Tora (Kiyoshi Atsumi), our feckless itinerant peddler, dreams he's leading his relatives in a pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, which takes them to a veritable Shangri-La.1987 May 8, Kevin Thomas, “'Bluebird': Tora-san no. 37 is bittersweet”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 09 Feb 2022. From the entry bluebird of happiness
• This was soon done, and the peddler druv up front of old Jinnie and went to git her, so as to tie her behind his waggin.1905, Charles Felton Pidgin, Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks. From the entry waggin

Meaning of peddler

1. noun An itinerant seller of small goods.
2. noun A drug dealer.
3. noun A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.

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Questions about peddler in a sentence

How do you use peddler in a sentence?

Peddler is used as a noun. For example: “The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.”

What is a short sentence with peddler?

“Nettlers are the mild-mannered poison peddlers of the world.”

What does peddler mean?

Peddler means an itinerant seller of small goods.