sales-pitch
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Even an Afro-Saxon Jamaica turns to the ill-advised notion of Discovery (by Columbus, that is) to exploit a few ruins at New Seville to attract tourists to its albeit vestigial Hispanic heritage, and the Winter (sic) 1988/89 in-flight magazine (BWIA Sunjet) on every BWIA aircraft carries an article sales-pitching the "French connection" of St Lucia which the writer says will proudly "participate in the bi-centenary celebrations of the 1789 French Revolution."
- "Late that night I lay in a kind of stupor, listening absently while the new mother in the next bed sales-pitched the Tupperware she sold for a living."
- "In the midst of this atmosphere, Will Messerschmitt energetically sales-pitched the concept and won a contract based on design estimates ten months before the prototype's first flight, followed by a production order for a thousand units while the prototypes were still under trial."
- "Back in the days when journalists actually worked to uncover things of real significance instead of sales pitching the glamour of Brad Pitt's hair styles or the agony experienced by an evicted Big Brother contestant, women such as Ida"