PAYMENT in a Sentence

Learn PAYMENT 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.

81 example sentences for PAYMENT, such as:

1. Oh, I'm not asking for payment in kind.
2. Customers often defer payment for as long as possible.
3. They were involved in a long legal wrangle over payment.
4. Certain of the payments were made on Mr Maxwell's authority.
5. The dour hotel concierge demanded payment for the room in advance.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAYMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
payment
 n.  a sum of money paid
 n.  a claim discharged
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Fact is, I was going to ask you to give me a little extra time on that payment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The quick Fontaine tempers flared when she put a greenback on the table and they flatly refused payment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  Lily felt really virtuous as she dispensed the sum in sops to her tradesmen, and the fact that a fresh order accompanied each payment did not lessen her sense of disinterestedness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  Oh, I'm not asking for payment in kind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
5  If they all combined, they would have enough to make the first payment; and if they had employment, so that they could be sure of the future, it might really prove the best plan.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  Then Marija and Jonas were between them to take a third share in the house, which would leave only eight dollars a month for Jurgis to contribute to the payment.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  The prisoner had come into his saloon after midnight, fighting drunk, and had ordered a glass of beer and tendered a dollar bill in payment.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
8  It's some time since I was articled, but the payment of that hundred pounds was a great pull.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
9  We both recommended a small sum in money, and the payment, without stipulation to Mr. Micawber, of the Uriah claims as they came in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
10  Then Levin had driven over himself, and arranged to have the grass cut, partly by hired labor, partly at a payment of a certain proportion of the crop.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 11
11  The other matter, the payment of the sums due, was met too by difficulties.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 26
12  All his salary went on household expenses and in payment of petty debts that could not be put off.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
13  To meet this cash payment, as I have stated, I had just fifty cents when I reached the institution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
14  I soon learned, however, that this money could be used only for the payment of the salaries of the instructors, and that there was no provision for securing land, buildings, or apparatus.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
15  Marshall, the Treasurer of the Hampton Institute, who had had faith enough to lend us the first two hundred and fifty dollars with which to make a payment down on the farm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  As regards the method of payment, a decision will be made after the contract has been signed.
17  Customers often defer payment for as long as possible.
18  One option may be to leave the debt outstanding and extend the payment terms.
19  The water rate is the payment in Britain for water when it is supplied to houses and factories and so forth.
20  You know the score - no payment till after the article is published.
21  PayPal is the safer, easier way to make an online payment or set up a merchant account.
22  Although young Lord Widgeon was insolvent, he had no fear of being thrown into debtors' prison, for he was sure that if his creditors pressed him for payment his wealthy parents would repay what he owed.
23  That sort of private payment, and the two-tiered medicine it implies, is becoming common in supposedly universal systems.
24  They were involved in a long legal wrangle over payment.
25  The dour hotel concierge demanded payment for the room in advance.
26  Amid the furor over the $1.2 trillion in U.S. student debt, the seven-campus system decided to tell students annually before they take out loans for the next year what their monthly payment would be after graduation.
27  What is actually paid will depend on the bonus payments made at the end of the policy.
28  Certain of the payments were made on Mr Maxwell's authority.
29  Many people are now having trouble making their monthly house payments.
30  The West is bleeding poorer countries dry through interest payments on their debts.