piggy bank

Example Sentences

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As oil prices dropped and PdVSA became a piggy bank for Chávez’s pet projects, including the sale of chickens, oil production slumped.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

The county piggy bank is not being raided, although public bonds still represent a subsidy and the assumption of some public risk.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

Over the course of the six-week trial, prosecutors detailed several specific expenses that they said showed that Mr LaPierre and other top leaders used NRA funds as their "personal piggy bank".

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024

Then she glances up at the piggy bank suspended above her filled with billions in South Korean currency – so much money, and so close!

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2023

I decided the next day I’d go to G. C. Murphy and buy a pink plastic piggy bank I’d seen there.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls