pay

Example Sentences

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It cost Wolves close to £4m to bring him and Watling to Molineux from Boro and it will not be cheap to pay them off.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

The no-frills airline requires at least one parent to sit with children aged two to 11 during a flight, but that means they must pay for what it calls a "mandatory family seat".

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The other reason for the headwind is that the tech sector has been throwing massive supply at the stock market to pay for its AI plans.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Meta’s attempts to find other sources of money to pay for it all might be too little, too late.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“We don’t want to pay you off, we came to offer to pay for your son’s gravestone.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse