Example Sentences

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Planning to pay off their mortgage early, Edwards and his wife had been saving in a money-market account.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

While the majority of millionaires were older workers who had been saving for a long time, a total of 4% of the retirement-account millionaires were millennials, who are those born between 1981 and 1996.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

They had been saving to fix their car, but recently had to rely on savings to pay for food.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

These account holders were mostly Generation X members and baby boomers who had been saving for roughly 25 years, according to Fidelity vice president of thought leadership Mike Shamrell.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

I lit my candle, took out the rabbit and squirrel hides I had been saving, and began rubbing and kneading them to softness.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George