Sentence examples for piggy from inspiring English sources

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piggy

adjective

Greedy

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So Osborne's cuts will boost the City, and transfer money away from productive investment and into idle corporate piggy banks, thus damaging the economy and leaving it even more City-dominated than before.

But this particular piggy has another trick up its sleeve: Walsh is writing a book.

Guymala laughs and points: "A piggy!" Someone else suggests a bandicoot.

But Abbott said Labor saw superannuation as a "piggy bank" to be raided.

Splash and whip enough women in one day and your piggy bank could gain as much as $10 to $15.

4) The amazing technicolour cult of the Irish training piggy back The headline says it all really.

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But in practice, it is coming to resemble a government piggy-bank.

The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank.

Thus, the sense of a good bargain evoked higher activity levels in the medial prefrontal cortex, and this often preceded a decision to buy.People's shopping behaviour therefore seems to have piggy-backed on old neural circuits evolved for anticipation of reward and the avoidance of hazards.

Among the young and houseless, price falls are a cause for celebration, even if the logjam in the money markets means that at present only those with the fattest piggy-banks can take advantage of cheaper homes.But capital values are only one part of the housing story.

The economy will piggy-back on the US recovery.

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