piggy bank
Example Sentences
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They include a teenage boy with a piggy bank full of videogame winnings, a young woman in need of a heart transplant, a cash-poor film producer and a mute priest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
So, of course, it’s not just that he’s arrogating the piggy bank to himself.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025
But Mara obviously internalized what he said: When we got home, she opened her piggy bank, which held her income from recent babysitting jobs, to see if she could scrape together the 50 bucks.
From Salon • Aug. 3, 2024
He lied repeatedly, they said, running roughshod over his top lieutenants and directing them to treat customer deposits as if FTX were a piggy bank.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023
The next day, Father presented her with a piggy bank.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
