How to Use summer stock in a Sentence
summer stock
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Spanish stocks, one of the Heard on the Street’s summer stock picks, face headwinds.
— Richard Barley, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017 -
Later, the two worked together in summer stock and got to be good friends.
— Todd Leopold, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021 -
Each month features a special theme, like summer stock-up.
— Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 14 July 2022 -
The historic Ivoryton Playhouse is where Katharine Hepburn got her start in summer stock.
— Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 25 July 2017 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
There have been more recent attempts to resurrect summer stock.
— David Lyman, The Enquirer, 30 June 2022 -
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 -
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 -
Optimistic outlook The rosy take on summer stock is in keeping with Bank of America’s balanced stance on the economy.
— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Give my regards to Broadway South Carolina summer stock.
— Chris Murphy, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021 -
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 -
Some boisterous, somersaulting sailors feel like refugees from summer stock; S. Katy Tucker’s projections are sometimes evocative (the edge of the ocean’s tide, swirling storm clouds), and sometimes not (a burning temple with screen-saver flames).
— Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 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 -
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 -
After a summer stock rally met with skepticism, investors are heading toward autumn with a feeling of discontent.
— Karen Langley, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
Her maternal grandparents, Helen and Peter Mark Richman, met doing summer stock theater.
— Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 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 -
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
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