SAVINGS in a Sentence

Learn SAVINGS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
390 example sentences for SAVINGS, such as:
1. I'll have to draw on my savings.
2. It took all our savings to buy the house.
3. I paid the cheque into my savings account.
4. One victim was swindled out of her life savings.
5. He contributed all his savings to the relief fund.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SAVINGS
savings
 n.  a fund of money put by as a reserve
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He left Bohemia with more than a thousand dollars in savings, after their passage money was paid.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
2  Marija was in despair, for there was still no word about the reopening of the canning factory, and her savings were almost entirely gone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  She had taken the advice of a friend and invested her savings in a bank on Ashland Avenue.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  He had some reason for thinking of his dress, for he was making about eleven dollars a week, and two-thirds of it he might spend upon his pleasures without ever touching his savings.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
5  The Cooperative Commonwealth is a universal automatic insurance company and savings bank for all its members.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
6  He felt his poverty; without a cent, without a home, without land, tools, or savings, he had entered into competition with rich, landed, skilled neighbors.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
7  This was something which, it seemed, usually occurred whenever the men got two or three months ahead in their savings.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
8  When he returned from Hampton, we both combined our efforts and savings to send our adopted brother, James, through the Hampton Institute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
9  She had confessed her sins and been forgiven, but when she showed her savings and proposed a mountain trip, Beth had thanked her heartily, but begged not to go so far away from home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
10  He would want to help me out of his little savings, I knew, and I knew that he ought not to help me, and that I must not suffer him to do it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
11  His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
12  The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a "To Let" card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
13  None came save his own cry, which clattered up the dreary silent ravines, and was borne back to his ears in countless repetitions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
14  Bewildered and stunned by this blow, Jefferson Hope felt his head spin round, and had to lean upon his rifle to save himself from falling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
15  I went on cabbing it for a day or so, intending to keep at it until I could save enough to take me back to America.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  The card gives you instant access to your savings.
2  I paid the cheque into my savings account.
3  I need to deposit five thousand yen in my savings account.
4  She opened a savings account at the building society.
5  The Consumer Federation claims banks are ripping you off by not passing along savings on interest rates.
6  One victim was swindled out of her life savings.
7  Having to pay out unexpectedly for car repairs made a big hole in my savings.
8  It took all our savings to buy the house.
9  Hospital bills had made deep inroads into her savings.
10  I'll have to draw on my savings.
11  Finance for a sole trader usually comes from the individual's own savings or from family and friends.
12  He contributed all his savings to the relief fund.
13  In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.
14  They got involved with a dodgy businessman and lost all their savings.
15  Put your money into our savings plan, and you can't lose by it.