Examples of piggy bank in a Sentence
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Michael DeWitt: So these two very wealthy, prominent men … basically help themselves to these kids' piggy bank.
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Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
The reality, prosecutors say, is that SBF founded both companies and used them as his own personal piggy bank.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
But still, some people lump the stimulus in with the PPP, and champion Trump as the piggy bank.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
Courtesy of Getty Images The U.S. economy may still have road yet to run, as JPMorgan discovered Americans haven’t quite finished raiding their pandemic-era piggy banks.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 July 2023
The relationship has also been tense at times. Between 2016 and 2020, Burning Man filed a lawsuit and six appeals arguing the agency chronically overcharged the festival and used the revenue as a piggy bank.
—Molly Osberg, Curbed, 7 Feb. 2023
Tesla insiders have repeatedly used the stock as their own private piggy bank ever since the first COVID wave ignited a spectacular rally that saw the company’s market value vault past all other car competitors to take its place amongst the elite ranks of global megacaps.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
To put that into perspective, imagine every CEO taking a sledgehammer to their own company’s piggy bank, smashing it to pieces, and then wondering why profits are down.
—Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 26 June 2023
Guests can practice life skills by learning how to earn, save and spend play money, withdraw funds from a giant piggy bank, play at the Business Board, and more.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
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Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
The reality, prosecutors say, is that SBF founded both companies and used them as his own personal piggy bank.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
But still, some people lump the stimulus in with the PPP, and champion Trump as the piggy bank.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
Courtesy of Getty Images The U.S. economy may still have road yet to run, as JPMorgan discovered Americans haven’t quite finished raiding their pandemic-era piggy banks.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 July 2023
The relationship has also been tense at times. Between 2016 and 2020, Burning Man filed a lawsuit and six appeals arguing the agency chronically overcharged the festival and used the revenue as a piggy bank.
—Molly Osberg, Curbed, 7 Feb. 2023
Tesla insiders have repeatedly used the stock as their own private piggy bank ever since the first COVID wave ignited a spectacular rally that saw the company’s market value vault past all other car competitors to take its place amongst the elite ranks of global megacaps.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
To put that into perspective, imagine every CEO taking a sledgehammer to their own company’s piggy bank, smashing it to pieces, and then wondering why profits are down.
—Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 26 June 2023
Guests can practice life skills by learning how to earn, save and spend play money, withdraw funds from a giant piggy bank, play at the Business Board, and more.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
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First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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piggy bank
noun
: a bank for coins often shaped like a pig
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