How to Use payment in a Sentence

payment

noun
  • Payment is due on the first of every month.
  • It took me five years to pay off the car, but I never missed a payment.
  • Prompt payment of your bill ensures that you will not have to pay any additional fees.
  • The credit card company just increased the penalty on late payments.
  • We require payment in advance for all goods purchased.
  • Buy this product for three easy payments of only $19.95!
  • There are still payments to be made on the car and house.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • To the fans who skipped a mortgage payment to pay for this trash?
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The sale was then rung up as a cash payment so that no card was charged.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The second day’s payments then would be deferred to the next day and so on.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • Monthly payments on the car were supposed to be $1,903 — and both Brielle and Kim were named in the suit.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The payment was not rent paid to Joe Biden for the use of his Delaware home.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The suit says the network withheld over 30% of the payment for taxes.
    Chloe Atkins, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The fare is $2 for a one-way ride using a Ventra card and $2.25 for cash payments.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Either their bank blocked the payment or the fake shop itself did not process it.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 8 June 2024
  • The highest payment goes to people who retire at the age of 70.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Hayes estate has demanded payment of $3 million for the use of the song.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Instead, he was paid $14 an hour in cash, and some months those payments didn’t come on time.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • Perkins’ family said in a statement that the truck payments were up to date, so the truck shouldn’t have been towed.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The final step is to purchase the vehicle, submit the payment, and get the keys.
    Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Make sure to contact them ahead of time and ask before payment.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • With the latter, the winner receives just over half that amount as a lump sum payment.
    The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.
    Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Under its terms and conditions, the card lists a late payment fee of up to $8.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2024
  • The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Cohen claims that Schiller handed the phone to Trump, after which the two of them discussed the Stormy Daniels payment.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 16 May 2024
  • There's also the cash option, a one-time, lump sum payment equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Adobe projects that will grow even more on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, another year-over-year increase from the payment option’s all-time high last year, as shoppers continue to look for ways to manage their budgets.
    Auzinea Bacon, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The loans are marketed as requiring no or low interest, or only conditional fees, such as for late payment.
    Cora Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024

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