life savings
Example Sentences
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In the absence of a thriving retail stock market, the life savings of two or three generations are poured into housing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"They don't seem to understand the consequences and there are real victims here losing their life savings in some case as well as corporations and their staff that are badly impacted," he added.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Her life savings are tied up in a two-storey house in the planned development area, surrounded by ornamental and fruit trees.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Employees often evaluate the stock based on its past growth rather than acknowledging the risk of having their paycheck and life savings tied to the same company.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Pilar Ternera had paid her fifty pesos, half of her life savings, to do what she was doing.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
