How to Use payback in a Sentence

payback

noun

• They beat our team last year, so we've got to beat them this year as payback.
• Legends keep them in the soul, a pilot light for payback.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Now, Rasella wants payback—in the form of a class action suit.
  — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 13 Apr. 2022
• The cops are all paid off; the characters fear payback, not jail time.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2021
• Getting some payback sure would be a sweet start to the season.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2021
• Neiman Marcus had asked for payback terms that phased out in 2026.
  — Dallas News, 25 May 2022
• Angley later wrote in one of his many books that the storm was God’s payback.
  — Bill Lubinger, cleveland, 7 May 2021
• The catch was payback for the Angels, who lost a homer to Hernández's glove on Monday.
  — Greg Beacham, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Acuña got some payback by stealing his 15th base in the second. ...
  — George Henry, ajc, 19 June 2021
• In the most simplistic sense, UCLA has gotten its karmic payback in the last two weeks.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
• Scenes of bloody payback are a common motif in Goines’ books.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2022
• The payback period could be three to five years for retrofits and longer for new builds, Mr. Allwright said.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• This comes in the form of quid-pro-quo political payback to donors.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Call it karmic payback for the teams playing Sunday’s game in a snappy 1:57.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• After all, there's the little matter of payback for the murder of 007's wife.
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 29 May 2024
• Spend is already at a 15-year low and the focus is on short-cycle, quick-payback projects.
  — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Customers are on the hook for repaying the loans, and the payback period could stretch for as long as 30 years.
  — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2022
• Should the pirate king hide out in the Caribbean or head to England for payback?
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Now that baseball has returned, the Dodgers’ first move should consist of payback.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• While a win offers a total cash payout, a loss means 100% payback in the form of a Barstool bet credit.
  — cleveland, 7 Jan. 2023
• Phoenix has to get used to facing teams that wanted payback from a season ago.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
• Is this just gonna be a big payback for people that funded campaigns?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
• The news that the robbers took Abby’s charm bracelet flips a switch in Hutch, though, sending him into the big, bad city for payback.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• As payback, Antoine gave his dad a cup of toilet water with ice cubes in it.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
• The Bucs will be looking for some payback after the Pilots snapped their eight-game winning streak.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Vengeance-minded in the best of times, Trump is now outright promising a second term filled with unchecked purges and payback.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• The Warriors got payback in the rematch as Booker was sidelined.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
• It’s been less than a year since the Aztecs lost to the Huskies in the national championship, making the team hungry for some payback.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Orioles nearly swept the Rangers for a tiny bit of payback, winning the first three games before Sunday’s lopsided loss.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
• Its basic plot — a woman heads out to seek payback from the perpetrators of a phone scam that ripped her off — might sound like a gender-reversed riff on a Liam Neeson vehicle.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024