How to Use piggyback in a Sentence

piggyback

1 of 2 noun
  • More proof of a better life through piggybacks!
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • Tainted to those who forgo paying the fee to be a part of this event and piggyback on those who do.
    — Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 20 May 2017
  • Some tried to tip-toe around the edge, some asked for piggybacks, while others didn't think twice and waded straight through.
    — CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Pitching in a piggyback role could mean only pitching three or four innings.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The old piggyback is clearly more beloved by your 2-year-old kid than by the Mariners’ pitching staff.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • The royal cousins enjoy ice cream, give each other piggyback rides or play with their family dogs.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Does this mean Manaea might be one of the Giants’ options to be the piggyback starter this year?
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • From private lenders, a piggyback loan is another common way to lower the cost of a down payment.
    — Kevin McAllister, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
  • Does the alpha-gal in a tick’s saliva piggyback on some virus or antigen that sensitizes people to it?
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • At first, the Tigers used him as a piggyback reliever, often asking him to pitch three or four innings.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Emma, meanwhile, loved art, her dad's piggyback rides, and cuddling with her mom, said Rodriguez.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021
  • The city will need to either piggyback onto a pre-exisiting bid or contract or put out a request for proposal.
    — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Paris also shared a sweet behind-the-scenes video of her brother giving her a piggyback ride at the event on her Instagram.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Rather than be evicted, the couple, who don’t speak English fluently, left and bought a house using a piggyback loan.
    — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
  • It was built to carry a Buran shuttle piggyback style, while at the same time having a truly massive cargo hold.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023
  • Blake also said that the Yankees would be comfortable using Gil as a piggyback option out of the bullpen.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Hannah Atkinson, who ran and helped organize the race, won the piggyback division.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Blake said the Yankees would be comfortable deploying Gil in a piggyback scenario out of the bullpen.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Corden may be able to offer piggyback rides to patrons’ tables, but most seemed to enjoy getting swept off their feet by a real-life Thor.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 June 2019
  • Fans at the stadium went crazy, and the game's hero gave Lionel Messi a piggyback ride around the field to celebrate.
    — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 26 June 2018
  • Kyle giving Lindsay a piggyback while also trying to take a sip of Loverboy is why these two will always be famous.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • The piggyback pitcher in his first few starts, designated to follow him, was Alexis Díaz.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022
  • In a clever move, Place’s new visual search piggybacks on its original mission to show users how Ikea furniture will look in their home.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The pair were all smiles as Zaya gave her little sis a piggyback ride in front of the Eiffel Tower in Pairs.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2021
  • One of the complications in April was that sometimes the piggyback starters wound up being needed in games they hadn’t been pointed toward.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
  • Coverage Prepaid providers piggyback on one of the Big Three’s networks.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Coverage Prepaid providers piggyback on one of the Big Three’s networks.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • James gave Aaron a piggyback ride out of Mexico, and the two boarded the van and headed back to the States together.
    — Haley Kluge, Variety, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The Cubs might want to take more pitchers who are capable of pitching multiple innings and use a piggyback setup to bridge from the starter to the back end of the bullpen.
    — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • While Skubal would be an upgrade for any rotation, the Mariners currently are using a piggyback system to keep all six of their starters stretched out.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 22 June 2026

piggyback

2 of 2 verb
  • This year, Fashion Week is looking to piggyback on those events.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Do the Reds envision him as a reliever who can piggyback a starter in a close game?
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The dining area piggybacks on one side of the sleeping cube, with a floating bench acting as seating.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 10 May 2023
  • Of course, other brands were bound to piggyback on Starbucks’s success.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2018
  • To piggyback off the last point, marketing with joy doesn’t just separate your product from the rest.
    — Alexa Dagostino, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • This ensures no third party is piggybacking off your account.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Since Christmas is coming right up, this could piggyback as a main Yuletide gift.
    — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Through this process, new medical devices can piggyback on a single approval for decades.
    — Anna Werner, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Or are the legalize-pot-folks just piggybacking on the teacher pay issue?
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The city is planning to piggyback on that effort and find ways to make the riverfront a destination.
    — James Briggs, Indianapolis Star, 3 June 2018
  • This piggybacks on the role of keeping the mind active by challenging it with crossword puzzles and the like, which makes sense.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2023
  • This ensures the watch isn’t piggybacking off my phone’s GPS.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The state is heading in that direction and, should the state act, local transit agencies likely will piggyback on that.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Instead of piggybacking on larger launch vehicles, these small sats will now have rides built for them that are available on demand.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018
  • At that length, the Dodgers won’t need to designate long relievers to piggyback Ohtani’s starts.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • At least one ransomware group appeared to try to piggyback off of Hafnium's campaign soon after it was exposed.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 19 July 2021
  • That makes the area too wealthy to qualify for tax breaks on its own, but the tax law allows such areas to piggyback on nearby ones that do qualify.
    — Bernard Condon, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Male Santa Marta harlequin toads will piggyback on their mate for months before egg meets sperm.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
  • States could piggyback with matching exemptions.
    — Bobby Turner, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The duo appears ready to piggyback in their first regular-season action once the club gets to Kansas City next week.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The PastryNow team developed its app to piggyback on trends with ghost kitchens and delivery models, but with a spin.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Sacha hopes to break the seasonal flu cycle and prevent pandemics by piggybacking core influenza genes on the genes of cytomegalovirus.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
  • What’s new today is that efforts to control climate pollutants are no longer just piggybacking on concerns about human health.
    — Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2018
  • As in being on the brink of the time of year when legends are made, piggybacking on the bright lights and national — and global — attention that comes along with it.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2026
  • As well as piggybacking on Artemis 2, South Korea has its own moon objectives.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This seemingly gave developers license to be even more brazen in their attempts to piggyback off the success of the original.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Past researchers have also studied these atoms a lot—so Ni’s group could piggyback on lasers developed to manipulate the atoms.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Two Chinese traffickers sent by his mother bribed a soldier to piggyback him across the Tumen river.
    — Joseph Hincks / Seoul, Time, 12 June 2018
  • This plan will also piggyback on China’s major ramping up of the use of robotics in many industries across the country.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
  • And OpenAI gets to piggyback on Disney to show off Sora.
    — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025

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