safe-deposit box
Example Sentences
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They are more likely in that jar of change your grandfather kept, or in your mother’s safe-deposit box.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
To keep his cash safe, Ruiz stored it in a safe-deposit box in Beverly Hills.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2024
New Jersey law requires a bank to bring in an independent notary when it opens and empties a safe-deposit box, and to place the box’s contents in a sealed package signed by the notary.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2019
In 2013, at a friend’s urging, Mrs. Thomas returned to the Washington bank where she had stored her husband’s old black-leather briefcase in a safe-deposit box.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2019
It opens a safe-deposit box at our bank.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
