How to Use payment in a Sentence

payment

noun

• Payment is due on the first of every month.
• It took me five years to pay off the car, but I never missed a payment.
• Prompt payment of your bill ensures that you will not have to pay any additional fees.
• The credit card company just increased the penalty on late payments.
• We require payment in advance for all goods purchased.
• Buy this product for three easy payments of only $19.95!
• Our records show that we received a payment of $215.36 in May.
• There are still payments to be made on the car and house.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The second day’s payments then would be deferred to the next day and so on.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• Monthly payments on the car were supposed to be $1,903 — and both Brielle and Kim were named in the suit.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• Perkins’ family said in a statement that the truck payments were up to date, so the truck shouldn’t have been towed.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• Make sure to contact them ahead of time and ask before payment.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• With the latter, the winner receives just over half that amount as a lump sum payment.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
• The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2024
• If the payments are not made, the person will be arrested, the scammer often says.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2023
• Unlike with a purchase, monthly payments don’t end when a loan is paid off.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• The program would cost $1,800 a day out of pocket — about the same cost as the average mortgage payment in the state of North Carolina.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
• Half of the kindergarteners and half of the ninth graders would be in a control group, which would not get payments, while the other half would receive the cash incentives.
  — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 16 Jan. 2024
• But, once those upfront payments were made, the complaint said Ethos did not distribute the funds to borrowers.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
• The king’s advisers had tried to put a property given to him by the King of Morocco under her name to shield him from tax payments.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• In the third quarter, almost 3% of cards had late payments, according to the Federal Reserve.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• Their landlord did not renew the lease for their three-bedroom apartment at the beginning of the year, instead switching them to month-to-month payments, which stand at $1,300.
  — Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• City officials say flattening out the payments makes more sense.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2023
• Omar, 35, declined to speak to a reporter in February after a hearing in which his attorney was allowed to quit the case due to a lack of payment.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Most lottery winners choose the one-time, lump-sum cash payment, which the final amount depends on state and federal taxes.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• China could also finance the project and extract payment either in tolls or from Russian oil and gas exports.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Hawaii and Alaska are the only two states that have different maximum payments compared to the other 48.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2024
• The festival offers layaway payment plans with down payments of $99.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• Land contracts are rent-to-own arrangements in which the seller acts like a bank and collects installment payments from the buyer for a period of years.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2023
• Like Medina, Stephen was asked to pay capital gains taxes and a customs fee to release the buyer’s payment.
  — Steve Fisher, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024