piggy

Example Sentences

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Lindberg treated the insurance companies as a “personal piggy bank,” prosecutors alleged, using some of the diverted sums to finance an extravagant lifestyle.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 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

That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

"I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake," he told reporters.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

Before she went to baby-sit again, Shirley secretly substituted buttons for the coins in the piggy bank.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord