How to Use peddler in a Sentence

peddler

noun
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  • The police punished the peddlers, the strike was broken, and the law remained on the books.
    — Kate Wagner, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Many fake news peddlers didn’t care if Trump won or lost the election.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Back in the day, there was a peddler in New York named Amadou Diallo.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler—all!
    — Annika Neklason, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • The unwanted monkeys in his backyard pitch in to help the peddler out of a jam.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The tactic has gotten smut peddlers in trouble in the past, Catlett said.
    — Julia Scheeres, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2002
  • Moroccan peddlers trudged through hot sand, their backs to their home, just across the sea.
    — Longreads, 29 July 2019
  • As the story continues, the peddler falls on hard times.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
  • He's referred to throughout the show as a Persian peddler.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2018
  • He was often called the last of the New Orleans street peddlers, and many feared that his death would mean the end of a tradition that dates back to the late 1800s.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • An aged Italian peddler and a white laundryman were stabbed to death by Blacks.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The corner drug peddlers and prostitutes are all but gone.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Porter, whose efforts to restore the hotel continued in spite of the fair’s demise, was its peddler.
    — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Wall Street peddlers will sense there’s a kindred spirit building this house of cards, even as Akhtar takes them down.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Even street peddlers were forced to obtain licenses for a fee.
    — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2017
  • More cases take the detective’s attention: a teenage girl is found slain in a park; a smut peddler falls to death from a roof.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • Jade peddlers camped out in one empty parking lot, spreading green and yellow stones across the ground.
    — Philip Wen, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • In the poem a peddler cuts away some of the clothes of a sleeping old lady, who then cannot recognize herself.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • And, despite their demurrals, the snake-oil peddlers who are perilously close to achieving their goal know good and well this is the case.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 June 2017
  • Fruit and vegetable peddlers hawked their produce from three-wheeled electric carts.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013
  • Mexico’s list of threatened tariffs will bring pain to peddlers of fruit, too.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • All the while, Gebert has remained active in hate groups, and his once part-time gig as a peddler of racist dreck has transformed itself into a full-time job.
    — Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
  • Technology Many fake news peddlers didn’t care if Trump won or lost the election.
    — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Caps for Sale’: Adapted from the classic tale, this story goes behind the scenes to weave the tale of a cap peddler’s life, some monkeys and their monkey business.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2018
  • All door-to-door salesmen are required to have a peddler permit in Placer County.
    — Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Support for the measure grew after two girls from Overton, Texas, had their lemonade stand shut down for lack of peddlers' permit in 2015.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 12 June 2019
  • The tradition dates to at least the 17th century, when peddlers sold secondhand books along the Pont Neuf from wooden carts and tables.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • When the courts upheld this law in 1911, the peddlers first went on strike, and then rioted, causing a mass uprising and widespread damages.
    — Kate Wagner, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2018
  • After working for a while as a peddler, Abraham made enough money to open his own general store.
    — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The Colonel was old enough to be Brian Epstein’s father, and, in management terms, the distance between them is the journey from the peddler of wares to the custodian of genius.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

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