How to Use payoff in a Sentence

payoff

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

Last Updated: 3 May 2024