How to Use savings bond in a Sentence

savings bond

noun
  • My mother passed away and left me a stack of savings bonds.
    — Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
  • Some savings bond records haven’t been uploaded to the site yet.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Some people might send savings bonds to celebrate your baby's birth.
    — Becky Batcha and Hiranmayi Srinivasan, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
  • First-place teams received $1,000 worth of savings bonds per student team member.
    — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2018
  • The Bible had a savings bond with Olander's name on it, according to Kyles.
    — John Quinones, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The tax-time bond purchase option is now the only way to buy paper savings bonds, which some people prefer when giving bonds as gifts.
    — Ann Carrns, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • If the chance to go on a safe cruise this summer isn’t enough to convince you to get vaccinated, how about a free beer, a doughnut or a savings bond?
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The interest that your savings bonds earn is subject to federal income tax, but not state or local income tax.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Participants agree to deposit all or part of their refunds in a savings or retirement account, or to buy savings bonds.
    — Ann Carrns, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Tax breaks might apply to those who qualify when cashing a savings bond to pay education expenses.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The rest is divided up between banks, insurance companies, private pensions and savings bonds.
    — Brian McGill, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2019
  • And last month so many people rushed to TreasuryDirect to purchase the government savings bond that the website crashed.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • Additionally, the interest that your savings bonds earn is subject to federal income tax, but not state or local income tax.
    — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Additionally, the interest that your savings bonds earns is subject to federal income tax, but not state or local income tax.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Keep short-term money in relatively low-risk investments such as savings bonds, money market accounts or certificates of deposit.
    — The Motley Fool, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Her crayon likeness of the Liberty Bell, its crack intact and with a rainbow overhead, won a $100 savings bond.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022
  • One of the burglaries netted him 30 federal savings bonds, which were later cashed in Oceanside and Vista, police said.
    — City News Service, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • Those rules are expected this year and will include initiatives like retail savings bonds, creating a clearer framework for platforms like Hakbah.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 3 Feb. 2026
  • In West Virginia, both those who sign up for a vaccine and those who have already gotten theirs can register to receive $100 in a savings bond or gift card.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 22 May 2021
  • Parents are allowed to redeem a child's paper saving bond if the child lives with that parent and is too young to sign the request for payment, according to TreasuryDirect.
    — Liz Weston, OregonLive.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • In 2006, the county briefly started an employee savings bond program that erroneously overpaid more than two dozen employees.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
  • States, cities and businesses around the country are offering rewards varying from beer and doughnuts to museum tickets and even possibly a $100 savings bond.
    — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 13 May 2021
  • That mythical image has appeared on coins, postage stamps, savings bonds, sports logos and, since the 1950s, the official seal of the National Guard.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • Now, the humble paper savings bond has become so forgotten that the Treasury Department says 80 million of them, worth a total of $29 billion, have fully matured but have not been redeemed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Commissions and other considerations TreasuryDirect is only one way to buy Treasury securities (with the exception of savings bonds, which can only be purchased directly from the Treasury).
    — Colin Dodds, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026

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