How to Use stockbroker in a Sentence

stockbroker

noun

• These might be the offices of a rather spiffy stockbroker.
  — Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
• Michael worked as a farmer, a pilot, a stockbroker, etc.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
• The stockbroker was convicted and jailed for five years; the consuls were not charged.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
• Her father was E.F. Hutton, founder of the stockbroker firm that bore his name.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• So she got married, had two children and worked as a stockbroker for 50 years.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• The couple had two sons, Tony and Nick, a stockbroker, and two grandchildren.
  — Stefanie Dazio and Sandy Cohen, USA TODAY, 23 June 2019
• Walsh compares making picks in the draft to being a stockbroker.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 21 June 2022
• In grislier crime news the same year, a stockbroker is murdered by his brother on the 22nd floor.
  — Chris Pomorski, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• The film is based on the memoir of a stockbroker who defrauded investors out of millions of dollars in the 1980s.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• To a stockbroker, schoolteacher or sportswriter, that is prime time.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• Her father, Louis Rand, was a stockbroker with his own firm who sold railroad bonds.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• Some say one was a lawyer, the other a stockbroker, who walked away and chose instead the life of religious hermits.
  — Lolly Bowean, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• The nightclub singer has a crush on the stockbroker, who’s in love with the debutante, who’s engaged to an English aristocrat.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
• Like a good stockbroker, the wise old veteran has advice for his teammates looking to get on the field.
  — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2020
• Mr Parnas is a former stockbroker with a trail of unpaid debts.
  — The Economist, 11 Oct. 2019
• The former model’s career began during her time as a young stockbroker on Wall Street in the 1960s.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
• In pleading guilty, the former stockbroker agreed to five years of probation.
  — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• In it, Belfort describes his wild rise as a young New York stockbroker in the late 1980s, and his subsequent fall through a haze of drugs, women, corruption and fraud.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Trustee may engage agents such as stockbrokers, custody agents and real estate brokers and may vote stock by proxy.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• In his baseball years, Bunning was a stockbroker and player agent during the off-season.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 27 May 2017
• Sullivan, who had grown up in Rockville, was a former stockbroker.
  — Alicia Mundy, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• The startup was the idea of Maine resident Libby Pratt, who went through bankruptcy, but came out of it to launch a stockbroker career.
  — Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• The story goes that the pastry chef Lasne, who had a shop near the Paris stock exchange in the late 1800s, created these little cakes for his stockbroker clients as a treat that wouldn’t muss their hands.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• A few minutes later, but not so soon as to appear suspicious, their new stockbroker pal would buy up all of Black’s shares.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 26 July 2019
• Logan’s father, Jerry, worked as a stockbroker on Wall Street and the money that had funded her skiing wasn’t there.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2018
• Angela Bassett plays Stella, a stockbroker who doesn't have much luck in the love department.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• Jordan Belfort, the former stockbroker who pled guilty to fraud, called Bitcoin, well, a fraud in an interview with The Street yesterday.
  — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2017
• But Kernen, a former stockbroker, also has a science background— and a robust one at that, for someone in his line of work.
  — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 20 June 2017
• The phrase was coined in the 18th century at the London Stock Exchange to describe a stockbroker who defaulted on his debts, then was adapted to American politics in the 19th century.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
• His story has often been compared to former American stockbroker Jordan Belfort.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024