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
The FBI gave Los Angeles mother Linda Martin the silent treatment for more than two years before finally returning the money it had seized from her safe-deposit box.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023
In 1983, he signed a one-page lease agreement with First National State Bank of Edison in Highland Park, New Jersey, for a safe-deposit box.
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
They staked out the doll shop, and they examined Dickinson’s bank account and safe-deposit box.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
