PAID in a Sentence

Learn PAID from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For PAID, below is one of 292 sentences:
Will wrote that the taxes had been paid and Jonas Wilkerson "acted up pretty bad" at the news but had made no other threats so far.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
paid
 a.  marked by the reception of pay
 a.  involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No one paid her any attention and she was the only young unmarried woman present who did not have a beau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt--and talked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  He had good pilots and paid them well, and they slid out of Charleston and Wilmington on dark nights, bearing cotton for Nassau, England and Canada.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  So Mrs. Merriwether invited him to dinner, feeling that this concession more than paid for the gift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  She fervently wished she had paid more attention to the whispered conversations of matrons on the subject of childbirth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  She thought she heard a feeble call from the next room but she paid it no heed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  They say you ought to paid lots more taxes than you did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  She had been so engrossed with the job of making Tara produce she had paid little heed to what was going on in the world outside.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  Uncle Henry had paid last year's taxes on it for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  Vaguely she had a memory of Suellen chattering about Frank and a store but she never paid much heed to anything Suellen said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  And our folks had paid good solid money for it, and I thought it still ought to belong to the Confederacy or to the Confederates.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  They've got to have lumber for their houses, so I'm going to buy this mill just as soon as--well, as soon as some of the bills owing me are paid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  Will's letter hammered into her mind the fact she knew only too well--that time was getting shorter and shorter before the extra taxes must be paid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Will wrote that the taxes had been paid and Jonas Wilkerson "acted up pretty bad" at the news but had made no other threats so far.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  He's hard as nails and slick as a snake, but he'd be honest if it paid him to be honest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
16  Love is never paid but with true love.
17  They paid an indemnity to the victim after the accident.
18  We paid a fleeting visit to Paris.
19  It's paid for with stolen money, I shouldn't wonder.
20  The shop is staffed by one paid worker and three volunteers.
21  The worker is paid by the hour.
22  The rich will not benefit from the proposed changes to the tax system to the same extent as the lower paid.
23  After she paid the bill, she placed the receipt in her wallet.
24  She paid the repair bill as a salve to her conscience.
25  If this bill is not paid within five days, your gas supply will be cut off.
26  Further, this principle should not be inapplicable simply because the citizen paid the money under mistake of law.
27  How much we paid is none of your concern.
28  For a monthly flat fee, paid by the consumer or employer, HMOs provide a specified list of medical services both in and outside the hospital.
29  He sold the car for more than he'd paid and pocketed the difference.
30  My salary is paid directly into my bank.