How to Use overpay in a Sentence

overpay

verb
  • The Wild had no choice but to overpay.
    Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • What options do claimants who were told they were overpaid have?
    Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t overpay for back-to-school supplies.
    PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Want to overpay for a smoothie in the comforts of your own city?
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Those who were overpaid will have to work out a plan to repay the money.
    Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Which means the left tackles who do reach free agency will be overpaid.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The Bengals would have to pay him, maybe overpay him, to land him.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Baker has never overpaid on a deal.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The Patriots will still have to overpay for any of the top guys.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Based on his body of work to this point, the Panthers overpaid Phillips.
    Mike Kaye march 12, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
  • So, that’s one area where the Patriots might have to overpay.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Claimants who were overpaid before this date will not be affected.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, Kang vastly overpaid for the franchise.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe the Brazilians overpaid, but that’s not Travis’s fault.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Score seats to your favorite games and shows without overpaying.
    Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
  • Some athlete is always injured, not good enough or overpaid.
    Greg Cote may 18, Miami Herald, 18 May 2026
  • Who are the most underpaid and overpaid coaches?
    Jordan Mendoza, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The lawsuit also claimed that members overpaid for their health plans in light of the data breach.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The problem is both will be 30 next season and figure to be overpaid.
    Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • And LaMarca said Cepero’s salary doesn’t mean that she’s overpaid.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2025
  • The value The Chiefs overpaid to move up — slightly.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • All three were overpaid and had little impact in 2025.
    Colby Gordon, Austin American Statesman, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Yet a far more important task is to stop the system from overpaying people who are very much alive.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • The buyer who will overpay for your business really is hiding in plain sight.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • And effort, in 2026, is the one thing even wealthy customers refuse to overpay for.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • When that tax money did come through from the county, some districts were overpaid or underpaid.
    A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026
  • This will explain how much they were overpaid, options for repayment and rights to appeal.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • They are vastly overpaid when compared to the work of TSA agents.
    Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The men allegedly overpaid contracts using a slush fund to conceal the bribes.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There are many examples of the city overpaying for things such as garbage cans, lifeguard stands and pier repair.
    Philip Bradley, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025

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