How to Use summer stock in a Sentence

summer stock

noun
  • Later, the two worked together in summer stock and got to be good friends.
    — Todd Leopold, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Spanish stocks, one of the Heard on the Street’s summer stock picks, face headwinds.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • There have been more recent attempts to resurrect summer stock.
    — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 30 June 2022
  • 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, 31 July 2019
  • As a teen-ager, Rauch worked at a summer stock theatre in Westport, Connecticut.
    — Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
  • 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, 31 Aug. 2019
  • 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, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The historic Ivoryton Playhouse is where Katharine Hepburn got her start in summer stock.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 25 July 2017
  • After a summer stock rally met with skepticism, investors are heading toward autumn with a feeling of discontent.
    — Karen Langley, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • 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, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Her third and last performance as Emily is in a Michigan summer stock production, in a town called Tom Lake.
    — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Extravagances like Broadway shows weren’t in their budget, so Michaelson grew up on summer stock productions.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Jamie’s self-indulgent reveling in success, Cathy’s faltering confidence and droll quips about summer stock.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • 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, 20 July 2023
  • 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, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The theater was founded as a summer stock theater in 1931 by the New York producer Lawrence Langner.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Harris began acting in community theaters before moving on to regional theaters and summer stock productions across the country.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Her maternal grandparents, Helen and Peter Mark Richman, met doing summer stock theater.
    — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Garner started out working in the costume department at various summer stock theatres before getting her big break in Zoya after moving to New York City.
    — Vulture, 11 June 2023
  • 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, 6 Apr. 2022
  • 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, 10 May 2018
  • 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, 26 Oct. 2023
  • To be sure, the bull/bear ratio hit its lowest level since the financial crisis back in June, just before the summer stock market rally (which has since faded, with the S&P 500 hitting new lows for the year this week).
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Larson, who resides in Los Angeles, said she’s seen nearly every iteration possible of the iconic production — from world tours to high school and summer stock theater, to workshops alongside her writer and composer brother.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2017

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