Thesaurus / pay off

pay off

How to use pay off in a sentence

Now, on my first day here, you pay me back for what I did then—as if it needed paying back!

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

“We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,” said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers.

Condillac after the marquis's death had refused to pay tithes to Mother Church and has flouted and insulted the Bishop.

Of course, newly acquired Ferns will pay for extra attention in the way of watering until they have secured a proper roothold.

In these enlightened days no man is imprisoned for owing money, but only because he does not pay it when told to do so.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

But she was young enough and pretty enough to pay little heed to pose or background.

Then, you know, she had no right to play in the Rooms again; she was supposed to pay her hotel bill, and leave Monte Carlo.

He would fear what he did not understand, and he would bow down and pay homage to what he feared.

One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985