How to Use down payment in a Sentence

down payment

noun

• We put a down payment on the house.
• She made a 10 percent down payment on the car.
• Who made the down payment, paid the bills, and made the repairs will be looked at.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Your equity can serve as a down payment on a new or used car or cover the drive-off costs for a new lease.
  — cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
• Over the last year or so, with higher rates, people were putting larger down payments on their homes—which had not occurred in mass for 15 years.
  — Gregory Clifford, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• That could make a lender feel more confident about issuing a loan with a lower interest rate and cutting the amount of down payment required.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2022
• Unlike stocks, homes can be acquired by accumulating enough for a down payment and then financing the balance via a mortgage.
  — Ivan Illán, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• Even with Renew Indy's support, the homes and down payment may still be unaffordable to families.
  — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2022
• That means tapping into your 401(k) for a real estate down payment or to pay for your kids’ education is almost always a bad move.
  — Rory Evans, Glamour, 16 Mar. 2022
• On cross examination, defense lawyers grilled Bates about his testimony that the group wanted to make a down payment for explosives.
  — Arpan Lobo, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
• Other factors that figured into people’s decisions to delay buying a home included wanting to save more money for a down payment and the high price of housing.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2022
• Cross examinations are now underway, with defense lawyers grilling Bates about his testimony that the group wanted to make a down payment for explosives.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2022
• Cut those out of a budget and for many a down payment wouldn’t be out of reach.
  — WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
• The Madonias put the down payment on the lot last year — a time when home prices were soaring.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• The couple wired the down payment, their savings, to crooks.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• One of the first steps is sending a portion of your down payment to the escrow agent to hold.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• The program will match what the family saves over the year to use as a down payment on a house.
  — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• The higher the down payment, for example, the less time the duration tends to take.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• The woman plans to use the money to put a down payment on a house and then save the rest, officials said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
• The goal is for families to move in and save up enough money for a down payment on a new home.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
• In January, the buyer returned with the $100 down payment — and the demand to take Zahra to Iran in the next three months.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• That includes wire fraud, such as attempts to steal a down payment.
  — Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Moore had made a down payment on a mobile home in Auburn Hills and was planning to move there with her son.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2024
• The down payments for the homes were financed by wire transfers from China.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
• First-time home buyers can get a home loan with as little as a 3% down payment.
  — Shashank Shekhar, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The couple each owned 50% of the house, but Robertson put down all of the $1.8-million down payment, according to the suit.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• The net proceeds will mostly be used for the down payment on the next property.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 4 June 2022
• On the following day, the couple, both 27, planned to go to work and turn in a down payment for their new home in Medway.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
• Smaller down payments, on the other hand, mean more risk for the lender and higher rates for you as a result.
  — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 5 Oct. 2023
• Buyers who work to improve their credit score, drop debt or grow their income, make a larger down payment or shop around among lenders will often get a better rate.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024