Get to know Piggyback better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like carry or modify.
Piggyback meaning
- On somebody's back or shoulders.
- Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
- Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
Using Piggyback
- The main meaning on this page is: On somebody's back or shoulders. | Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train. | Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
- Useful related words include: carry, pickaback, modify, alter.
- In the example corpus, piggyback often appears in combinations such as: piggyback on, to piggyback, that piggyback.
Context around Piggyback
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Piggyback
- In this selection, "piggyback" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, riding, off, starters and trailer stand out and add context to how "piggyback" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aims to piggyback off the and and a piggyback second they. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "piggyback" sits close to words such as abhiyan, ajibola and ajinkya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with piggyback
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And just to piggyback a little bit here. (8 words)
At one point he gave her a piggyback. (8 words)
Just to piggyback on the last question on the Performance Chemical's piece. (13 words)
To piggyback on that, I saw where, a couple of years ago, you’d talked about wanting to do justice to the art department’s work on the first “Dune” and working to figure out how to do that given various constraints. (42 words)
This will mean that the league wants to avoid a situation where the union will piggyback on a delay in the start of free agency and delay the CBA voting or, possibly, re-do it in light of the dramatically changed circumstances. (42 words)
Even when Swaminathan manages to contact his family, via voice messages on WhatsApp when they can piggyback on another ship’s wifi, he cannot tell his little girl, who will be seven in June, when he will see her again. (40 words)
If Trump were to make a televised speech from the Oval Office, should the networks be required to keep the cameras rolling while any clown with a rant can piggyback on the speech by dashing up to the microphone? (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
And just to piggyback a little bit here.
Between the borrower and a piggyback second, they’ll need to cough up $100,000.
I would just like to piggyback on Jeff’s safety stuff real quick before.
Just to piggyback on the last question on the Performance Chemical's piece.
Now, here come the smaller operators, who are also looking to duplicate the strategy of offering customers low-priced mobile plans that piggyback on established wireless networks, mixing in plenty of support from their own Wi-Fi networks.
The loved-up couple were later spotted walking arm-in-arm down the pavement outside Dirty Martini bar - before Hatton gave Chelsea a piggyback as they headed to their next venue.
To piggyback on that, I saw where, a couple of years ago, you’d talked about wanting to do justice to the art department’s work on the first “Dune” and working to figure out how to do that given various constraints.
Artists Sunday aims to piggyback off the well-known holiday shopping-focused days of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, to make the Sunday after Thanksgiving the most profitable day of the year for artists.
I just hate to see the success of our small businesses riding piggyback on marijuana shops that could be gone the next day if the trend changes.
MediaTek said its T700 supports both standalone and non-standalone Sub-6 5G network architectures, meaning ones that are only 5G or ones that piggyback on 4G LTE.
This lag has allowed all manner of dubious interests to piggyback on the BRI in order to advance their own interests, something that the Chinese government has so far been either unwilling or unable to address.
This will mean that the league wants to avoid a situation where the union will piggyback on a delay in the start of free agency and delay the CBA voting or, possibly, re-do it in light of the dramatically changed circumstances.
But, to piggyback off Red Sox Stats, fans should pump the breaks on relegating Devers to a career as a first baseman or designated hitter.
Even when Swaminathan manages to contact his family, via voice messages on WhatsApp when they can piggyback on another ship’s wifi, he cannot tell his little girl, who will be seven in June, when he will see her again.
Or, if it does come at home, with the Yankees’ postseason plan to “piggyback” starters—use two of them in a game, basically—he might come on in relief.
Zandvoort hasn’t hosted a Formula One race since 1985, but it will next year as F1 seeks to piggyback on the popularity of Max Verstappen.
At one point he gave her a piggyback.
If Trump were to make a televised speech from the Oval Office, should the networks be required to keep the cameras rolling while any clown with a rant can piggyback on the speech by dashing up to the microphone?
That is, it’s not a case of some enterprising prankster creating an account called “Surefire Intelligence” in the days after the scam made the news, to piggyback on the name’s notoriety.
By 1955, an additional 25 railroads had begun some form of piggyback trailer service.
Common combinations with piggyback
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- piggyback on 13×
- to piggyback 11×
- that piggyback 2×
- piggyback off 2×
- can piggyback 2×
- of piggyback 2×