How to Use sock away in a Sentence

sock away

verb
  • And those dollars were not meant to be socked away in reserves, but spent.
    — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Democrats countered that their caution in socking away reserves has paid off.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • These trees sock away carbon but provide little support to the webs of life that once thrived in those areas.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • His campaign has socked away more than $32 million to battle for a second term.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 19 June 2026
  • The pay was steady and solid — enough to pay her bills and still have money left over to sock away for a savings account for her child.
    — Paul Wiseman and Alexandra Olson, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2021
  • So what are the best ways for aspiring or current parents to sock away cash for their pricey progenies?
    — Laura Hanrahan, Woman's Day, 28 Jan. 2020
  • In an ideal world, renters would sock away that extra money as emergency savings.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024
  • These rates are now as high as 4% in some cases, which is good news for consumers who have the cash to sock away in these types of accounts.
    — Mia Taylor, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But not everyone makes enough money to sock away savings, or has costs that can be substantially trimmed.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2021
  • And some borrowers will want to use the monthly savings to draw down other debts, or just sock away the cash for emergencies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • The singer and guitarist socked away songs grappling with frustration, pain and love during the pandemic.
    — David Peisner, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Savings consumers might have managed to sock away during the pandemic are now longgone.
    — Juveria Tabassum, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The governor also proposes to sock away a few billion in savings and repay some debt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
  • In total, the city will sock away some 1,280 stones, according to Welliver.
    — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Rated 100 points by Wine Enthusiast, this is one to sock away.
    — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Burgess and others are often more worried about socking away money for unexpected car and house repairs or vet bills.
    — Jackie Fortiér, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Burgess and others are often more worried about socking away money for unexpected car and house repairs or vet bills.
    — Jackie Fortiér, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • By 60, the typical worker should have eight times their annual income socked away for their golden years.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Having socked away savings during the pandemic, most were willing to spend it as the economy reopened.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Americans will be able to sock away more in their workplace retirement plans, before taxes, in 2025.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
  • For decades, surplus payroll tax revenue was socked away in the trust fund, which was designed to be tapped when revenue was no longer sufficient to cover benefits.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The reduction of gas flows to Europe is endangering the continent’s race to sock away enough fuel to ride out next winter.
    — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 19 July 2022
  • Kobliner recommended that parents help their kids open a Roth IRA to sock away part of their earnings.
    — Christine Koh, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Lower-earning households also are more likely to spend, rather than sock away, their tax savings, more efficiently goosing the economy.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • Every 500 generations Lenski and his students sock away some bacteria from each flask in a freezer.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2012
  • However that turns out, there's a buzz on the river that the whole question could land in court, which is why Utah and Arizona are both socking away money in a legal defense fund.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Financial counselors have had a difficult time convincing Americans to sock away enough money to cover their living expenses for even a few weeks.
    — Howard Dvorkin, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Pamela Conrad, a landscape architect, developed a carbon-tracking app that provided guidance for ways site planners could sock away more carbon.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • While the middle class was able to sock away some serious cash during the pandemic, their golden era has since faded as the economy rebounded and 40-year-high inflation took over.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The rule of thumb for people who are 55 and have another decade of work before reaching the traditional retirement age is to have already socked away about eight times their salary in their retirement accounts.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 June 2024

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