How to Use depository in a Sentence

depository

noun

• The bank is used as a depository for government funds.
• My motives must remain in the depository of my own breast.
  — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 30 May 2024
• If the library's staff is reduced and significant parts of the collection are removed, Meyer said, the library could become little more than a depository.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 4 June 2024
• Many have likened the depository to a bank that doesn’t do any lending.
  — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram.com, 12 June 2017
• The Svalbard Vault is the most secure and remote doomsday vault in the world, and the Cherokee seeds will join a depository that dates back to 1984.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
• The branch will have a drive-up teller window outside, along with a drive-up ATM and night depository.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 18 May 2018
• The firm allows clients to purchase physical gold and coins on the website and ship them to their home or depository.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• All three have depository shares that trade in London and shed more than 50% of their value on Monday.
  — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• Cousin said the surge in egg prices, for instance, meant the food depository had to switch to buying medium eggs instead of large ones in order to source the same amount of product.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
• As a result, River Birch became the sole depository for storm debris in the area.
  — Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
• The company has structured the program to help the depository banks grow.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2021
• Any bank that doesn’t send in full reports to Dallas could be banned from being used as a depository for city money for five years.
  — Dallas News, 2 May 2022
• The depository is, naturally, the only one of its kind in the United States.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2018
• Nearman said the public was welcome to go to any state depository — these are mostly public libraries — and read the code there.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• While the land may appear unused on the surface, Jablow said, the Dells is used daily as a depository for water from the wastewater treatment plant to reenter the aquifer.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
• The depository provides food to roughly 400 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in Cook County.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
• This summer, the food depository offered grab-and-go meals and allowed parents or guardians to pick up the food on behalf of anyone in their household 18 and under.
  — Christen A. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• Through the first nine months of this fiscal year, more than 26 million pounds of food were donated to the depository, the vast majority of it from businesses.
  — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• But, hey, what is staff if not a depository for hopefully empty threats?
  — Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• The county bought the building in 1977 after the depository left and after the building was briefly owned by a Nashville music promoter.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
• They are also often used as depositories for spare cash.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• The blast chillers will give the depository the ability to freeze food in large quantities so that the meals retain their nutritional quality.
  — Hank Beckman, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2021
• Ensign Peak also holds at least $3.2 billion in foreign stocks through a series of depository shares and receipts.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
• What was once a cold, dusty depository of off-season clothes, castoff furniture and suitcases is now a warm, inviting bedroom and bathroom suite.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 7 Jan. 2023
• My parents’ letterbox became a depository for estate agent ads and, once, a handwritten note from a stranger asking to buy their house.
  — Dani McCarthy, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• The location has full-service lobby banking, an ATM and a night depository.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
• The southern Mykolaiv region has also been the target of fierce strikes, and the European Union condemned a recent attack on a major grain depository there.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• The coins or bullions placed in segregated storage are also the exact ones removed from the depository.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• Less than a mile away in neighboring Southbridge, what was just a municipal landfill when Jordan moved here in 2001 has grown into the state’s largest trash depository.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2017
• San Diego is one of only five libraries in the region with federal depository status.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024