piggy

Definition of piggynext

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of piggy The optional desk-plus-hutch ($2,245) can store books, pictures, piggy banks, globes and trophies, Gruman says. — Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 The Fed’s latest spending report noted that the savings rate has declined, suggesting that consumers are keeping the party going by robbing their piggy banks. — Greg Petro, Forbes, 2 June 2022 Their houses are piggy banks, their retirement accounts are up and their bosses are eager to please. — New York Times, 10 May 2022 Prior to the current coloring book program, First Federal Lakewood gave away piggy banks. — John Benson, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022 See All Example Sentences for piggy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piggy
Adjective
  • Grabs a ketchup bottle and garnishes his face, before squirting mustard into his hateful, piggish eyes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The Pork Belly A breakfast diner that added piggish flair to Kuna’s dining scene is no more.
    — Michael Deeds January 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Unfurling through the grand midcentury Grill room was a snaking, glamorously gluttonous serpentine buffet that stretched from entrance to their 20-foot tall windows.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
  • America’s Semiquincentennial was celebrated across the country this summer with big, dumb, gluttonous fun.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • John Wayne and Gary Cooper, like Ken-san, often played anachronistic loners from a disappearing Arcadia that was being destroyed by hard-nosed modernizers—greedy bankers, railway owners, big-city politicians.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Katz said the rapid and steep rate movements give investors a chance to buy from the fearful and sell to the greedy.
    — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Businesses have insatiable demand for AI acceleration, and boards and CEOs are pushing aggressively for productivity improvements tied to these new capabilities.
    — Drew Naukam, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Radiation, heat and space traffic Google is just one of several companies that have proposed sending data centers to space as the race to produce ever more sophisticated machine learning has created an insatiable demand for computing power.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Despite the plot’s violence and death, this is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories from hoggish men whose power, both in the home and outside of it, is largely an illusion.
    — Amy Rowland, New York Times, 12 May 2020

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“Piggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggy. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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