How to Use payoff in a Sentence

payoff

1 of 2 noun

• You'll have to work hard but there'll be a big payoff in the end.
• We expected more of a payoff for all our hard work.
• We made a lot of sacrifices with little payoff.
• He lost his factory job but received a payoff and a pension.
• Several city officials have been accused of receiving payoffs from the company.
• That’s also why the scares and the laughs have so much payoff.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• Ready for this?Summit hike near Phoenix will test you, and the payoff is so worth it.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• But there also is the payoff factor, and that led to new math in the wake of the trade deadline.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
• More:Summit hike near Phoenix will test you, and the payoff is so worth it.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• The products are easy to wear and give a good color payoff.
  — ELLE, 8 Sep. 2023
• This shade is a perfect my-lips-but-better colour on me, and the payoff is huge.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• Why Trust Us? Trimming your brows is a quick fix with a big payoff.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
• This deal was about rolling the dice for a potential payoff in the future.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• The payoff wasn’t the pay, but the freedom to write songs without restrictions.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The slow-jam tease of the buildup makes the payoff worth it — and all of this in what amounts to only one chapter of the roving story.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
• Two common debt payoff methods are the snowball method and the avalanche method.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 26 July 2023
• She’s been paying those loans off for over a decade (the standard payoff time) and doesn’t see an end in sight.
  — Katie Coss, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
• According to Kaplan, there was a small payoff for that approach and the fate of the film was out of his hands.
  — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 12 July 2023
• Well, the payoff happened just two weeks before the election.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• His payoff was Saturday, kicking for the Buckeyes in the first game of the season.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
• For Cole, one of the biggest payoffs is the delight visitors take in the garden.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
• But Jeremiah said the payoff is too plausible and too great for Williams not to go first.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• The gesture was rooted in kindness, but there was a payoff, too.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Still, fans committing to travel and attend F1 races want the payoff to be worth the buildup.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Both offer an escape from daily life, as well as the hope of a big payoff.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Because the visuals, acting, and payoff by the end are all 100% worth it.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• In the Daniels payoff, the crankocrat and the candidate were embodied in the same person, Trump.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
• The payoff for a tough climb up Storm King is the most magnificent view of Lake Crescent.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• The shades, the packaging, and the colour payoff are all obsession-worthy.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• Day has noticed how his best running back has worked the past nine months and now he’s spent the first two weeks of fall camp watching the payoff to that.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023

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pay off

2 of 2 verb

• I finally paid off the loan.
• At the end of the day, that’s what’s more likely to pay off for you in the long run.
  — Amelia Harnish, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2023
• Montes was able to stay in her apartment and pay off 83% of the past rent.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• Miller has plans to use the money to pay off her car loan.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• My grandma would need to pay off the plots over the course of many years.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• Over the course of a year it was paid off as legal fees, as was the invoice.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Clearly, all of that training for the Eras tour paid off.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2023
• But none of this has paid off: not with donors, not in poll numbers.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• But it’s been in her family, and paid off, for decades.
  — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• The strategy paid off for Logano, while Blaney finished the race in 11th place.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2024
• The last-ditch effort from the Deep Space Network has now appeared to pay off.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 5 Aug. 2023
• But Wang stuck with the integrity of her story and that bet paid off.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Going against Trump did not pay off for one of the candidates.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• That bet may have paid off, as Toyota boasts strong hybrid sales even as the rest of the EV market slows down.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 6 Mar. 2024
• In this week’s memo, the DNC points out their focus on Virginia did indeed pay off.
  — Gary Grumbach, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• For a project that pays off, choose high-quality paint that will stand up to time and the elements.
  — Alicia Chilton, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
• Casting Chalamet has paid off the for the film, which has earned strong nods.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• As was so often the case in his life, Walt won the day and proved that creative ambition could pay off in the long run.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• Getting his own agent paid off — Jack made his acting debut in 2012's The Hunger Games.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Will these Hail Mary category plays pay off in the end?
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
• More than 170 employees have paid off their loans, New York Life said.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• When Jimmy Kimmel takes the stage March 12 to host the Oscars for a third time, his months of prep work will surely pay off.
  — Elizabeth Leonard, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• The sport’s big bet on Las Vegas paid off as the race got rave reviews from F1 insiders.
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• The bets paid off and Shake Shack is paying for these sandwiches, fries and desserts as a result.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
• Reed has been battling a bad knee, but her work has been paying off for herself and the Bruins.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Patience has paid off for Cisco in its effort to buy Splunk.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
• That means banks will have to refinance, extend, or pay off these loans.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• Like Horn, the use of higher quality meat doesn’t pay off in the final product.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
• Allen’s risks didn’t pay off The Bills had one overriding theme of training camp — rein in Josh Allen.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Days of preparedness ahead of Hilary appear to have paid off in L.A.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024