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
Some financial details too routine for the safe-deposit box shouldn’t be forgotten in the rush to depart.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022
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
“But it’s not for a fixed safe, I don’t think. Nothing too big. Maybe something portable. Could be a safe-deposit box, actually. An old one. Or some kind of fire-retardant cabinet.”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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