How to Use summer stock in a Sentence

summer stock

noun
  • Each month features a special theme, like summer stock-up.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 2022-07-14
  • Later, the two worked together in summer stock and got to be good friends.
    — Todd Leopold, CNN, 2021-12-31
  • Spanish stocks, one of the Heard on the Street’s summer stock picks, face headwinds.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 2017-10-02
  • There have been more recent attempts to resurrect summer stock.
    — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 2022-06-30
  • Think of it as a summer stock production of gazpacho or pasta with red sauce, with tomatoes in the lead role.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 2019-07-31
  • As a teen-ager, Rauch worked at a summer stock theatre in Westport, Connecticut.
    — Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 2024-01-09
  • In other words, a few dark clouds that are hovering over the summer stock market may have prompted some traders to get off their beach towels and back into the market.
    — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 2019-08-31
  • Expectations that the Fed would soon finish hiking rates and start lowering them next year helped drive a summer stock rally.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 2022-08-29
  • Give my regards to Broadway South Carolina summer stock.
    — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 2021-02-01
  • The historic Ivoryton Playhouse is where Katharine Hepburn got her start in summer stock.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 2017-07-25
  • The prize included an internship at a summer stock theater in New York, and from there Reynolds’s career began to take off.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 2018-09-06
  • Her third and last performance as Emily is in a Michigan summer stock production, in a town called Tom Lake.
    — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-03
  • Extravagances like Broadway shows weren’t in their budget, so Michaelson grew up on summer stock productions.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 2024-03-08
  • Because of their cold-weather hardiness, mums require a slightly different care routine than your standard summer stock like begonias and petunias.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 2023-07-20
  • Orson Welles, who attended prep school here for five years (his only extended bout of schooling), performed in the Opera House’s summer stock.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 2018-02-02
  • The theater was founded as a summer stock theater in 1931 by the New York producer Lawrence Langner.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 2021-03-25
  • After work in summer stock, Persoff, in 1947, received an invitation to come to the first meeting of the new Actors Studio, led by Kazan.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 2022-04-06
  • Mercury was born when then-freshman, Brault and sophomore Marshall, who were expected to take part in some form of summer stock theater, decided to accomplish that task by forming their own theater group in Cleveland.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 2018-05-10
  • In one Massachusetts summer stock production, Sinclair Lewis himself appeared onstage, playing the role of the heroic journalist who helps defeat the fascist militia.
    — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-10-26

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