How to Use piggyback in a Sentence

piggyback

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then, the largest piggyback ride ever, with the 6-6 Gronk jumping upon the 7-1 Shaq’s shoulders.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 25 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Not yet named, the cute, fresh-faced addition to the zoo will get around during their first three months by using mom for piggyback rides.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And don't worry: George and Charlotte also got in on the piggyback ride action.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 14 Apr. 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
  • In Britain, and in particular in London, piggyback building projects like this have been going on in the U.K. for the past decade.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
  • There are dozens of companies in the U.S. that piggyback on others’ networks.
    — Ryan Knutson, WSJ, 27 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • From private lenders, a piggyback loan is another common way to lower the cost of a down payment.
    — Kevin McAllister, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
  • The team envisions using him as almost a piggyback starter, taking some pressure off the rest of the bullpen once or twice a week, much the way the Reds use Tejay Antone.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2021
  • He’s found some success as a piggyback relief option in the short-term behind Cole Ragans.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • 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
  • Johnson, 29, wore a red and black bikini and was seen getting a piggyback ride from Martin, 42, at one point during their outing.
    — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Emma, meanwhile, loved art, her dad's piggyback rides, and cuddling with her mom, said Rodriguez.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021
  • The royal cousins enjoy ice cream, give each other piggyback rides or play with their family dogs.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For Falcon 1 to put that much mass into orbit, the rocket would need to launch very near the equator and piggyback on the planet’s rotation, writes Berger.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The piggyback pitcher in his first few starts, designated to follow him, was Alexis Díaz.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022
  • In Maas’ Twitter video of what happened next, an unidentified woman then pops out of the tunnel and the man jumps on her back — getting a water-rescue piggyback ride.
    — Fox News, 19 July 2019
  • Hannah Atkinson, who ran and helped organize the race, won the piggyback division.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Gogo's in-flight Wi-Fi piggybacks on this infrastructure.
    — Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2016
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piggyback

2 of 2 verb
  • Do the Reds envision him as a reliever who can piggyback a starter in a close game?
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021
  • This ensures the watch isn’t piggybacking off my phone’s GPS.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 16 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The dining area piggybacks on one side of the sleeping cube, with a floating bench acting as seating.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 10 May 2023
  • To piggyback the lobster tails: Lengthwise slice through the center upper shell of the lobster to expose the tail meat, but leave the tail fan and under-shell in tact.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 30 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
  • Baker said that Jake Odorizzi will piggyback with McCullers, and the team will then move to a six-man rotation.
    — Brian Hall, Chron, 14 June 2021
  • The district hopes to piggyback on ITD's contract to save money, Wallace said.
    — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 27 June 2018
  • Since Christmas is coming right up, this could piggyback as a main Yuletide gift.
    — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Of course, other brands were bound to piggyback on Starbucks’s success.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • This way, residents can piggyback on the bid contract price.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 7 July 2021
  • 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
  • That’s still a long way off, but some scientists warn NASA needs to ensure we’re protected from any alien germs that might piggyback a ride back, too.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 May 2022
  • Or are the legalize-pot-folks just piggybacking on the teacher pay issue?
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • From ants that pillage your pantry to banana-loving fruit flies or fleas that piggyback on your pets, the battle against bugs is ongoing.
    — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 22 June 2020
  • This resulted in users finding new ways to piggyback pirated movies on to the free services.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • Quordle is just one of many spinoffs that tried to piggyback off of the success of Wordle, which had users posting their scores across Twitter and competing with friends to solve the word of the day with the least guesses.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2023
  • What would follow — again, if the Bears piggyback off what the Colts did in 2021 — is a mixture of zone and man pressure with a lot of late rotation by defensive backs and even linebackers.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The rumor — as yet unconfirmed — is that the WQMX signal will be piggybacked onto the 107.3 frequency as a simulcast.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The hair test was developed in the late ‘60s, when an Austrian chemist named Werner Baumgartner decided to piggyback on the work of his wife.
    — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The lab’s many collaborators have helped them at little to no cost or allowed them to piggyback onto other trips, all in the name of research.
    — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 2 July 2018
  • Making this even more absurd is that both Charter and Comcast were, at least at one point, in talks with Sprint last year to piggyback off of its wireless coverage, too.
    — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But that show was much more in that traditional true-crime vein, and forcing this story to piggyback on the title and the genre is unfair and a little marginalizing.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Through this process, new medical devices can piggyback on a single approval for decades.
    — Anna Werner, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Parents tend to pay some bills for their adult children or allow the children to piggyback on their accounts, such as for cellphones and subscription streaming services.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

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