How to Use summer job in a Sentence

summer job

noun
  • How old do kids need to be to get a summer job?
    — Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Do top colleges really care about a summer job scooping ice cream?
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Molieri started his dog training classes as a spinoff of a summer job during college.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026
  • School is almost out for teenagers across the country, and those hoping to land a summer job may have a tough time finding one.
    — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 31 May 2026
  • Teen summer job hiring is heading toward its weakest level in decades.
    — Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • So far 2026 is shaping up to be the worst summer job market in nearly eight decades.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • College apologists may not care about the vanishing summer job.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Rizzs took a summer job as a clubhouse kid, shining shoes before games and then working three innings of play-by-play.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That is, until a call from her father brings her back home and a summer job starts to uncover sinister secrets.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The summer job, a rite-of-passage for generations of American teenagers, isn’t so easy to come by.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • Harris met Provenza at a summer job waiting tables, per his obituary.
    — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This holiday season, a group of Chicago high school and college students is asking for the gift of a summer job.
    — Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • So McMillon took a summer job unloading trailers.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Teens need to grind out consistent effort to land an opportunity in the worst summer job market over the past 78 years.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • The death of the summer job for teens is another reason many Gen Z twenty-somethings seem clueless in the workforce.
    — Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • If, for example, your child wants to go to an expensive sports summer camp, encourage them to save a portion of the cost from their allowance or summer job.
    — ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • Like her brother, Ava has also spent time on the Survivor set, even enjoying a summer job in the Philippines.
    — Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The formula estimates income from a minimum wage summer job, even though many technical college students work year-round and earn much more than that.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • As a result of a tightening summer job market, the competition will be hotter than ever, Kantenga says.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • Conrad admitted to his brother and father that he’d been fired from his summer job at the clinic and is staying at Cousin’s before returning to Stanford in the fall.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • When Conrad, who starred in the reality juggernaut, was offered a summer job in Paris on-camera, she was portrayed as deciding to live at the beach with her boyfriend instead.
    — Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
  • McMillon started with a summer job in Walmart’s warehouse number 2 in Bentonville, where the company’s new headquarters now sits.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Farley’s personal approach—insisting on a welding summer job for his own son—mirrors Ford’s institutional initiatives.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For many teenagers, landing a summer job is considered a rite of passage, but, for 16-year-old Simon Walker in Broomfield, finding work has become a full-time job itself.
    — Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • For the student who can log into a class, access test prep or books, or fill out a summer job application online, or the job seeker who can finally complete an online application, closing the divide will be transformative.
    — Latoya Williams-Belfort, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • While students aren’t always in a position to return to the same summer job numerous years in a row or continue working during the school year, returning to the same place of work may allow students to grow into more formal leadership roles over time.
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Advertisement My first job was meant to be a summer job with the White House Messenger Service, but my time at the White House lasted a lot longer than three months.
    — John Wrory Ficklin, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The cynic in me is cautious and keenly aware of the often empty allure of nostalgia, while the teen girl who spent her entire summer job money on an Xbox 360 and Halo 3 is vibrating with excitement.
    — Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Finding a summer job may be getting tougher for teens across the country, but Atlanta's Summer Youth Employment Program is giving young people a chance to earn money, gain experience and build skills.
    — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • One banner will celebrate an uncle who served in World War II — the uncle who gave me a summer job loading trucks at O’Hare International Airport that helped pay for college.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026

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