paid

How To Use paid In A Sentence

• I gave him £1000 down, and paid the rest in instalments.
• Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
• Preachers paid for time to sermonize, listeners could call in, some slots were reserved for Christian music.
• He continued as a paid consultant to the company long after his election to the Dail in 1997.
• One of the first big pay stories to break in Financial News came in spring 1996 when Steve Plag, the pharmaceuticals analyst, was headhunted from NatWest Securities to BZW, a move which was said to make him the highest paid analyst in the City. Steve Bell on David Cameron and bankers' bonuses
• He said it was because he was paid to sit around and drink milkshakes all day.
• But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
• His offences came to light in January when the club's chairman telephoned him to ask why a £4,000 bill for printing the yearbook had not been paid.
• The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.
• Their trust was repaid with fierce loyalty.