piggy
Example Sentences
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As oil prices dropped and PdVSA became a piggy bank for Chávez’s pet projects, including the sale of chickens, oil production slumped.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
So, of course, it’s not just that he’s arrogating the piggy bank to himself.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025
“He treated that client trust account like a personal piggy bank,” Paetty said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
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
I took the wad of bills into my fist, hugged the piggy bank to my chest and charged up the ladder to my bunk.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
