piggy

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

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

UK retailers are being "raided like a piggy bank", the boss of Marks & Spencer has said, as the sector faces rising taxes.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 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

Because I knew that if Lori never got out of Welch, neither would I. I went back to G. C. Murphy the next day and stared at the shelf of piggy banks.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls