How to Use deferred in a Sentence

deferred

adjective

• The church had so many deferred maintenance costs.
  — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• Bellinger’s new deal does not include deferred dollars.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Denver won the toss, deferred and then did a good job covering the kick.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
• The end of deferred student loan payments is a big reason.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
• The deferred judgment meant it could be expunged from Lewis’ record.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
• The deferred judgment means this may be expunged from Lewis’ record.
  — Lucy Kafanov, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• Grief opens the way to a reckoning with place, stasis and deferred desire.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
• With all the deferred money, the Pack has seen its future, and it is mortgaged.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
• The commission’s staff still must work on how the changes in the tax rate will affect deferred taxes.
  — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2018
• Gaskill has struck a deal for deferred prosecution that could allow the charges against him to be dropped.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• If the company stumbles—or worse, goes bust—your deferred cash could shrink or vanish.
  — Anatoly Iofe, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
• The tax paid will be booked as a deferred tax asset on the 2016 balance sheet.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2018
• The deferred maintenance is out of control.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
• The deferred maintenance is out of control.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
• Moreno had asked the court to grant her deferred adjudication.
  — Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2026
• But speeding up that project has come at the expense of other deferred maintenance.
  — Briana Bierschbach, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• Hicks agrees that deferred maintenance can lead to health and safety risks to a home’s occupants.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
• The deal does not contain any deferred money and Bichette gets a full no-trade provision.
  — Mike Fitzpatrick, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2026
• Satisfaction so long deferred might seem beside the point.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
• Besides the new projects, the city also has a backlog of deferred maintenance.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
• The mayor vowed to create the board but deferred to community groups.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• Instead of being angry, clients and colleagues showed respect and deferred to me.
  — Tim Peacock, Teen Vogue, 8 Jan. 2018
• In the case of a felony, a deferred adjudication can keep a defendant out of jail or prison.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 July 2022
• The mayor vowed to create the board but deferred to community groups to decide how.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
• The home had been neglected for at least a year and deferred maintenance needed to be handled.
  — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 20 Dec. 2025
• To close this deal, the Cubs dressed up their offer with $70 million worth of deferred payments.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• As Kirke has previously said, the chain offered an up-front pay increase and a deferred bonus that was banked.
  — al, 4 Nov. 2021
• Bonilla and his agent weren’t finished with deferred payments, however.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
• As is the case with many deals this off-season, and many before, Burnes’ contract includes a whole lot of deferred money.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• Others have suffered years of deferred maintenance.
  — Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 24 Mar. 2026