How to Use safe-deposit box in a Sentence

safe-deposit box

noun
  • Today, the subject is what should stay out of the safe-deposit box.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Password managers are programs that keep all your login details in an online safe-deposit box.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Dahlen keeps his treasured NFL jewelry in a safe-deposit box at a bank near his home.
    — Tom Fitzgerald, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
  • Two banks in Texas have been robbed; in both cases, the culprits have only taken a single safe-deposit box.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023
  • They may be locked in a safe-deposit box, wrapped in tissue in a closet or entombed in a plastic container in a storage unit.
    — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The gang of mostly elderly men drilled through a concrete vault wall and ransacked more than 70 safe-deposit boxes.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Dinklage is effective as a ruthless mobster who loves his (maybe) mother and the diamonds in her safe-deposit box.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2021
  • After speaking with a conservator, Phelps put acid-free paper between the pages and put it in a safe-deposit box.
    — Ben Simon St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The three most common options are home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.
    — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2026
  • In response, Olsson positioned the hostages under the hole with nooses around their necks, the ropes attached to the top of a row of safe-deposit boxes.
    — Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The cards also include helpful reminders such as to not keep your original will in a safe-deposit box, which can be inaccessible upon your death.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Protect your important papers from ruin or theft by keeping them secure in a safe-deposit box, or a fireproof, water-resistant safe in your home.
    — Mary Crawley, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
  • While some are worn regularly, hordes of these watches languish in dark places, from the safe-deposit boxes of Saudi princes to, perhaps, your sock drawer.
    — WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • They were found in a safe-deposit box belonging to the daughter of Louisiana’s former top police official.
    — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Now in development is a revolutionary type of jewelry that could one day relegate the ordinary necklace, bracelet, or brooch to the safe-deposit box of history.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The company offers discounts to policyholders with a home security system, a home safe, a gemstone grading report, or storage in a bank vault or safe-deposit box.
    — Ben Luthi, wsj.com, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The poem might also be a safe-deposit box, keeping the names of species intact for an environmentally unstable future, when the trees that the poem names may only exist in language.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Fireblocks has developed what is effectively a safe-deposit box for cryptocurrencies, along with a crypto version of the Swift money-transfer network used by banks.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Unlike One57, with its reputation as a safe-deposit box in the sky, real New Yorkers allegedly wanted to live there.
    — Curbed, 16 Sep. 2022
  • As a proxy for value, an NFT isn’t much different from the words grandmother’s jeweled brooch on a list in your safe-deposit box or your insurer’s filing cabinet.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Bad money drives good money out of circulation and into safe-deposit boxes, a fundamental truth worth remembering even if your bank account consists of nothing but digital ones and zeros.
    — James Grant, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2020
  • After years of having more than one identity (rather like fictional spies having a safe-deposit box full of passports) companies are electing, or being forced, to show more allegiance to a particular country.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But spurred by Hughes’s inquiry, Howland’s son discovered a trove of Bellow letters, as well as previously unpublished fiction and non-fiction, in a safe-deposit box.
    — Abigail Deutsch, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • On June 2, according to notarial records available online, the foundation board approved a revision of the deed to give Gevers single-signature access to its bank accounts and safe-deposit boxes.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • The new plan suspends that deduction for employee business expenses paid after 2017, including legal fees, accounting fees, tax-prep fees, investment advice, safe-deposit boxes, etc.
    — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Additionally, Jewelers Mutual offers discounts to policyholders who have home security systems or store their jewelry in safe-deposit boxes at a bank.
    — Ben Luthi, wsj.com, 22 Nov. 2023

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