Wondering how to use Pay in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as give or settle.
Pay in a sentence
Related words
Pay meaning
- To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- To be profitable for.
Synonyms of Pay
Using Pay
- The main meaning on this page is: To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | To be profitable for.
- Useful related words include: pay off, give, settle, bear.
- Possible Dutch translations are: lonen, opbrengen.
- In the example corpus, pay often appears in combinations such as: to pay, pay for, pay the.
Context around Pay
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pay
- In this selection, "pay" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dividend, aya, apple, grades, table and google stand out and add context to how "pay" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include offered to pay more or, 2 weeks pay, pay rise, equal pay and pay tribute. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pay" sits close to words such as video, recently and financial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pay
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For example, processing military pay, processing travel pay, civilian pay. (10 words)
This is essentially a performance-linked pay and employers are not mandated to pay the full variable pay. (18 words)
We cannot pay out box office income, make essential stock purchases, pay suppliers, refund customers or pay our staff payroll. (20 words)
My mum was struggling to pay the rent, so therefore I stood up and went, ‘I’m going to be the man of this house, help you pay the electric, gas and part of the rent and if you need money for petrol, I’ll pay for that as well’. (50 words)
In the documentary, Kate says: “Derek’s care costs more than my salary from ITV and that is before you pay for a mortgage, before you pay any household bills, before you pay for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point. (45 words)
While credit cards charge interest if you don’t pay the full bill at the end of the month, a typical Buy Now, Pay Later offer lets you pay for something in four or six installments interest-free — and doesn’t require a credit check. (45 words)
Example sentences (20)
So people did not pay for their homes, they did not pay for schooling, they did not pay for basic foodstuffs, they did not pay for services and they did not pay for utilities.
The fourth-quarter implied dividend pay-out ratio was only 70%, compared to a twelve-month dividend pay-out ratio of 83% (assuming only the base dividend pay-out) and 91% (assuming the base and variable dividend pay-out).
KBC currently offers digital wallets from four of the world’s leading technology companies; Apple Pay, Google Pay, Fitbit Pay and Garmin Pay.
Students who are living off-campus will need to be making that much in order to pay their rent, but on-campus jobs only pay between $9-$11 an hour unless students have certifications that would warrant higher pay.
The current entitlement to 18 weeks' paid parental leave pay will be combined with the current Dad and Partner Pay entitlement to 2 weeks' pay.
An unregistered car will pay a toll of €3.70, a driver with a video account will pay €3.10, while a driver with a tag will pay €2.
In the documentary, Kate says: “Derek’s care costs more than my salary from ITV and that is before you pay for a mortgage, before you pay any household bills, before you pay for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.
My mum was struggling to pay the rent, so therefore I stood up and went, ‘I’m going to be the man of this house, help you pay the electric, gas and part of the rent and if you need money for petrol, I’ll pay for that as well’.
We cannot pay out box office income, make essential stock purchases, pay suppliers, refund customers or pay our staff payroll.
While credit cards charge interest if you don’t pay the full bill at the end of the month, a typical Buy Now, Pay Later offer lets you pay for something in four or six installments interest-free — and doesn’t require a credit check.
AYA Pay customers will be able to transfer funds through AYA Pay Agent shops and purchase merchandise and services from AYA Pay merchants in one click, using either a unique QR code or mobile phone number.
For example, processing military pay, processing travel pay, civilian pay.
They did the same when a landlord rented to a man when a woman offered to pay more, or a heterosexual when a lesbian or gay man offered to pay more, or a thin person when an obese person offered to pay more.
This is essentially a performance-linked pay and employers are not mandated to pay the full variable pay.
And you get 1% back when you pay with your card, 2% if you pay using Apple Pay and 3% if it’s an Apple purchase.
It’s on a Take or Pay basis for up to 25 years (Take or Pay means you Pay even if you don’t take.
Payment solutions like Scan to Pay or Tap with mobile are fundamentally shifting the way people pay to provide more convenient yet ultimately secure ways to pay and be paid.
Company grade officers are those officers in pay grades O-1 to O-3, while field grade officers are those in pay grades O-4 to O-6, and general officers are those in pay grades of O-7 and above.
Currently, only 5 percent of Medicare enrollees pay an income-related premium, and most only pay 35 percent of their total premium, compared to the 25 percent most people pay.
Pay table main Each machine has a table that lists the number of credits the player will receive if the symbols listed on the pay table line up on the pay line of the machine.
Phrases with pay
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with pay
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: