How to Use repertory in a Sentence

repertory

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Millepied's ballets, about one-third of the repertory, are balletic yet grounded.
    — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 10 May 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 two companies plan to work together in the future on both new and repertory releases.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Those last two later became part of the Cincinnati Ballet repertory.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • But her performance, a farewell to the canonical repertory, did not mark a full retirement.
    — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The report focused on changes to the repertory, school admissions process and racial and ethnic makeup of the ballet company.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The sketch show has also tapped Chloe Fineman and Shane Gillis for coveted positions in its comedic repertory.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Van Zweden, in turn, was a martinet specialist in the standards who seemed appealing as an about-face from Gilbert, less electric in the core repertory.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Opened in 1935, the Times has gone through tons of changes over the years, shifting back and forth from first-run to second-run movies with a mix of repertory programming — the industry term for its latest format.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The operatic repertory has been a glory of Welser-Möst’s tenure here.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2022
  • In an audacious stroke, the productions were performed by the same cast in rotating repertory last fall.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • For the first time in the company’s more than 30-year history, the Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival will be performing two plays in repertory.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2024
  • Listen to the sweeping musical statements at the foundation of the orchestral repertory: symphonies.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 11 June 2024

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