How to Use summer job in a Sentence

summer job

noun
  • How old do kids need to be to get a summer job?
    — Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • My first job was a summer job in college working at a retail store.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2024
  • For many teens, the point of a summer job doesn’t have to be about finding the highest pay available.
    — Steve Leblanc, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2023
  • But the issue here is not about teens picking up a summer job, but what happens once school starts again.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 4 July 2023
  • Quionte learned all about construction last year and even got a summer job with a contractor.
    — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • And what was supposed to be a summer job turned into 20 years later.
    — Outside Online, 21 May 2025
  • Do top colleges really care about a summer job scooping ice cream?
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • But for my family, working in the fields was like a summer job, a way to make extra money.
    — Araceli Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Molieri started his dog training classes as a spinoff of a summer job during college.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026
  • After all, his summer job options are limited—and not just because of his young age.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 July 2026
  • For example, anything my kids want that’s over the budget comes out of their summer job earnings.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 11 July 2024
  • School is almost out for teenagers across the country, and those hoping to land a summer job may have a tough time finding one.
    — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 31 May 2026
  • But now, teens are up against the worst summer job market since the Great Recession.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Teen summer job hiring is heading toward its weakest level in decades.
    — Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • For teenagers like Ivanka Lopez, the summer job is a stepping stone on a career path.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Teens are up against the worst summer job market in nearly 80 years, fighting just to get a shift at an ice cream shop.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 July 2026
  • The day of the accident, Buffy’s best friend rushed breathless into my summer job and shared the news.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That is not a bad wage for 17-year-old Hadley Boggs' first summer job ever.
    — Carter Evans, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • So far 2026 is shaping up to be the worst summer job market in nearly eight decades.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • College apologists may not care about the vanishing summer job.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Rizzs took a summer job as a clubhouse kid, shining shoes before games and then working three innings of play-by-play.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That is, until a call from her father brings her back home and a summer job starts to uncover sinister secrets.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The minimum length of a Corps post will be 300 hours—about the length of a summer job—and will max out at a year.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The aunt said Malloy had been a senior in high school and had registered for the mayor’s summer job program.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • This week, Chow scored a summer job as a busboy after months of relentless applying.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The summer job, a rite-of-passage for generations of American teenagers, isn’t so easy to come by.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • Harris met Provenza at a summer job waiting tables, per his obituary.
    — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This holiday season, a group of Chicago high school and college students is asking for the gift of a summer job.
    — Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Wages can come from formal employment, like a summer job, or self-employment income, such as babysitting or dog walking.
    — Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • He was set to take a summer job with a Los Angeles law firm but rescinded the offer to head to Ukraine.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024

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