How to Use pay in a Sentence

pay

1 of 2 verb

• The Rams returned in 2016, and the owner paid for the stadium.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Preti paid around that cost for her son's care and one-and-a-half times the rate if the nanny worked more than 40 hours.
  — Madison Medeiros, Parents, 3 Dec. 2023
• Angela and Stephen struggle to pay their bills and have doubts about their careers.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Members of the Discount Den program would pay $78 round-trip.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2024
• Aaron Rodgers must be starting for the promotion to kick in, and the Jets must lose for patrons to get their tab paid for.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
• Note that this is typically when the lease transfer fee has to be paid.
  — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 8 June 2023
• But sometimes, that type of getaway doesn’t align with your schedule — or paid time off.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
• Businesses also pay armies of workers to fill out Captchas in bulk.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• Her realtor urged her to pay the holding deposit on the spot to secure the one-bedroom unit.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• The next morning, Greenberg paid out nine hundred dollars to the girl and two other women.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• And directors in streaming and pay TV were given an extra day to shoot one-hour shows.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 June 2023
• For those who are not already Peacock subscribers, fans will have to pay $5.99 to start a subscription that will last a month.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
• If the program was not there, that would mean small water systems would do all those tests themselves and likely pay more for it.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• Amelia Air, which does regular fundraisers, paid for the transport.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Waymo, which shares a parent company with Google, wants to pick up paying passengers in the city for the first time.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
• To take advantage, travelers must pay the first cruise fare at full price.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2024
• The big tech giants Microsoft and Apple took the top two spots on the list for most dividends paid out amid a banner year for U.S. tech.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• The transit agency resumed enforcement in the District last fall in the wake of a rise in passengers not paying fares.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• On Monday, Parker's dearest friends and castmates turned to Instagram to pay tribute to the actress and her latest trip around the sun.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
• Tribe members pay a sliding fee to siphon water, depending on the size of their barrels — less than $10 for most customers.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• But Matthew Stafford has been great at not only beating the blitz this year, but also making defenses pay for the gamble with big-time throws.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
• Houston firefighters make a fraction of the salaries paid to their counterparts in Dallas or Austin.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
• This new release is meant to pay tribute to the Macallan founder Alexander Reid and is the second edition of this ongoing series of high-end bottlings.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2024
• Lee’s office also declined to explain how Lee is paying for his legal defense in the ethics case.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• Prior to 2019, if a technician wasn’t certified, Ford wouldn’t pay for the repair, the whistleblower said.
  — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
• The judge also ordered the actor to attend 12 hours of traffic school, pay restitution, and visit a morgue to learn about the victims of reckless driving, per the NYT.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2023
• Though the asking price is more than three times what was paid less than five years ago, a stately East Coast-style home a few doors down on just two oceanfront acres was sold last month for $47 million.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2023
• But the question of how the companies would get people to use — and pay for — the expensive new technology has swirled around the industry for months.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• The Disney Dining Plan is an optional add-on that can be selected and paid for ahead of your vacation.
  — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
• Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Jr., must each pay a little over $4 million, plus interest, to the state for their shares of the Washington hotel sales.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024

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pay

2 of 2 noun

• Each pay period begins on the first of the month.
• He has been suspended without pay pending the results of the investigation.
• I took a significant pay cut when I took this job, but I think it was worth it.
• Workers received a $4,000 pay increase.
• Aaron Jones had to take a pay cut to remain with the Green Bay Packers.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• The question would be his appetite to take a pay cut if the Dolphins ask.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• The total pay shown is the sum of gross pay on state worker pay stubs for each year.
  — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
• Yes, the pay was better, but the health insurance was much worse.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• The union wants to increase the salary floor for full-time lecturers, many of whom start at the bottom of the pay scale.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The two unions first walked out together decades ago in the 1960s over pay issues.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 July 2023
• Starting pay will be increased to $23 an hour during the life of the contract.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 26 July 2023
• This fall, voters could weigh in on whether to raise teacher pay.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
• The pay was low, but there were other factors that made the role appealing to her.
  — Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2023
• Before the deal, union leaders crafted a strike pay plan and picket lines across the Strip.
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• The latter was a line TV shows weren’t supposed to cross, even in the Wild West of turn of the century pay cable.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
• The rise in pay transparency overall has been fastest among white-collar jobs, the study shows.
  — Natasha Solo-Lyons, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
• The current goal is to run the pay guarantee program at a net neutral.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Evan Spiegel says the company’s My AI chatbot helped a user learn how to ask a boss for more pay.
  — Nuha Dolby, WSJ, 20 June 2023
• Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union’s strike pay fund.
  — Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• The economic effects of such a sharp and sudden pay hike are unclear.
  — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• It’s believed to be one of the largest classes ever suing under an equal pay act claim.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Nigeria’s coach spoke up about equal pay and was criticized for his words.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Aug. 2023
• But some states are passing new pay policies to incentivize them to stay.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
• And the causes that the U.S. women are most derided on the right for supporting are racial justice and equal pay.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• The tasks were menial — posting fliers or hanging signs in public spaces — and the pay meager.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• The limit can be a percentage of your annual pay or a flat dollar amount.
  — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 8 Jan. 2024
• This is the first year the study has presented a question about a potential pay cut in exchange for working less.
  — Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024
• Employers are skimping on pay raises for workers Layoffs rose sharply in the first three months of the year Looking to get hired?
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 15 May 2023
• Anyone who joined after that year is classified as lower tier, and their pay starts at around $17 an hour.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
• Chuan explained that the high starting pays and long vacations are meant to compensate for the risks people assume on the job.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024

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