safe-deposit box
Example Sentences
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In previous years, schemes touting investors’ ability to hold IRA-designated gold at home or in a safe-deposit box left customers with six-figure tax bills.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 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
A couple of years ago, Doar did a search of unclaimed money from the government and discovered his now deceased mother had a safe-deposit box.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2023
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
Get the money from the safe-deposit box and pay my medical bills.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
