How to Use pay down in a Sentence

pay down

verb

• Keep in mind, there was a price to pay down the stretch for the prolonged R&R.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Hence, there was no urgent need to use the free cash flow to pay down debt.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Even before Covid-19 hit, the U.S. was nowhere close to paying down its debt.
  — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• At the same time, AT&T is paying down more than $143.3 billion in debt.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• Time will tell if the new measures get approved during the vote and if the moves are enough to pay down the debt load.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• This may result in a stronger economy that can help pay down the debt.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Many of the moves were part of an effort to help pay down an enormous debt load of about $50 billion.
  — John Koblin, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The proceeds could be used to pay down debt taken on in the Monsanto deal.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
• His wife, Ada, is a novelist whose books have paid down the mortgage.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Zaslav era of WBD has seen a tremendous amount of cuts and layoffs in an effort to pay down debt.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 July 2024
• Under the plan, the credit card issuers reduce the rate so people can pay down the debt in full, Holt said.
  — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024
• The surplus – which hasn’t been seen since – allowed the U.S. to pay down the national debt by over $450 billion.
  — Linda J. Bilmes, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
• Morris Brown had filed for bankruptcy and sold 30 acres to pay down debt.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
• Of those people, more than a quarter said paying down their debt would take a year or longer.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
• And billions will be left over to pay down federal deficits.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• This money can now be used to build up your emergency fund or pay down debt.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The second largest group will be people who have been paying down their loans for 20 years or more, but still haven’t paid it off.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 31 July 2024
• And a shuttered government, without a plan for how to pay down its debt, would make the problem worse.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
• Buy some credit that can be paid down against the big, grindy back-end replumbing stuff that sometimes has to be done.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Their basic plan is cost cuts, find a partner for Paramount+, and sell some assets to pay down its $12 billion in debt.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
• Be ready to pay down debt before the end of the pause to take advantage of the interest-free period.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Since the merger, the company has paid down almost $11 billion of its debt.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• But acute unemployment makes those debts hard to pay down.
  — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Those bonds are paid down with sales tax revenue generated at the site.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• The tax pays down the debt the county took on to fund renovations at Kauffman and Arrowhead.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2024
• In order to keep his company intact, Zaslav would have to use its cash flow to pay down that debt.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• To that end, the company is using the cash raised to pay down its debt, and to fund some strategic acquisitions.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
• With the Dodgers, Friedman focused on paying down those kinds of contracts, or waiting them out.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Rather than pay down the debt with cash, the Trump Organization opted to refinance.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• Because the building has diminished in value, Trump would also have to be willing to pay down his existing mortgage with cash and to take out a smaller loan.
  — Paula Aceves, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024