be paid

Example Sentences

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Mayweather did so “knowing that the check would not be paid when presented,” according to the complaint.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

The application deadline is Friday 31 July with money due to be paid into bank accounts in August.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

“There’s a price to be paid for people who may be thinking about different issues,” Farmer said, “but maybe you’ve got an appropriations request in and you don’t want to risk burning that bridge.”

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

The trust funds were a way of cumulating workers’ aggregate tax payments to ensure an equal sum would be paid out again, in aggregate, at some point.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Grandma and Ruth didn’t involve me much in the way they settled things between them—things like who would be in charge of me and where I would live and how I would be paid for.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth