How to Use repertory in a Sentence

repertory

noun
  • She acted in repertory for many years.
  • The one piece of standard repertory was Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
    Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Finding new works that fit with the Taylor repertory is a tough task.
    New York Times, 16 June 2022
  • But the repertory is what matters, and it’s been dazzling.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • That most of these new works are unlike any in Bream’s repertory should not matter.
    Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • Oropesa had never sung Manon, which is one of the most demanding roles in the French repertory.
    Mike Silverman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Much of the program will consist of works from the company’s repertory.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 21 July 2021
  • The rest of the program was another kind of test: standard repertory.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The stronger of the pieces are clustered in the first of two programs running in repertory on alternating evenings.
    Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
  • When: In the summer, 10 shows are in rotating repertory at the three theaters.
    Marcus Crowder, sacbee.com, 25 May 2017
  • While the role is more forgiving than most in his repertory, there were challenges.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Classics are the province of Bruce Goldstein, whom Cooper hired in 1986 to show work in repertory.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This spring, for instance, there are 19 programs running in repertory, chosen from the dozens of scripts in the site’s archives.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 May 2021
  • Each episode was rounded out by a repertory cast that takes on new supporting roles each time.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Over the course of the next six years, the company performed rotating repertory.
    Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • The all-ages spring repertory performances will take place in the covered Pavilion, between the lake and vineyard.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 12 May 2021
  • Any composer with a vast repertory behind them has done it many, many times.
    Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The key to achieving this nirvana is first to ensure that the star in question has a broad, diverse repertory that became the soundtrack to the key moments of life.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • By 1973 the company was on Broadway with five plays in repertory, Mr. Schramm appearing in all of them.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • And this is like working with the best repertory company out there week after week, episode after episode.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
  • The restored film was shown in November 2016 at MoMA and later in repertory and art house theaters all over the country.
    Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Millepied's ballets, about one-third of the repertory, are balletic yet grounded.
    Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • Stagings turned bolder; the repertory was refreshed to add Messiaen, Ligeti, Janacek and new works.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2017
  • In a mixed repertory program, the group displayed three sides of its essential profile: classy, earnest and potent.
    Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Jazz singers and instrumentalists have recorded the song more than 250 times, making it a standard of the repertory.
    WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
  • The three-week concert series, parceled out among several churches, presents repertory from baroque to brand-new.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Two of the four pieces in the program are classics from the Connecticut Ballet repertory, and the others are new works the company commissioned.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2022
  • The Roxie — the beloved invalid of the repertory scene, always one fiscal quarter away from padlocks and boarded-up windows — is back.
    Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2017
  • This month, repertory theaters in New York and Los Angeles have plenty of offerings to get those lungs expanding and heart beating.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Listeners were left to decide for themselves how this largely Central European repertory related to the edge-of-the-world terrain around them.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

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