How to Use payoff in a Sentence

payoff

1 of 2 noun

• You'll have to work hard but there'll be a big payoff in the end.
• We expected more of a payoff for all our hard work.
• We made a lot of sacrifices with little payoff.
• He lost his factory job but received a payoff and a pension.
• Several city officials have been accused of receiving payoffs from the company.
• That’s also why the scares and the laughs have so much payoff.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• Ready for this?Summit hike near Phoenix will test you, and the payoff is so worth it.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• But there also is the payoff factor, and that led to new math in the wake of the trade deadline.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
• More:Summit hike near Phoenix will test you, and the payoff is so worth it.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• The products are easy to wear and give a good color payoff.
  — ELLE, 8 Sep. 2023
• This shade is a perfect my-lips-but-better colour on me, and the payoff is huge.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• Why Trust Us? Trimming your brows is a quick fix with a big payoff.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
• This deal was about rolling the dice for a potential payoff in the future.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• The payoff wasn’t the pay, but the freedom to write songs without restrictions.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The slow-jam tease of the buildup makes the payoff worth it — and all of this in what amounts to only one chapter of the roving story.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
• Two common debt payoff methods are the snowball method and the avalanche method.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 26 July 2023
• She’s been paying those loans off for over a decade (the standard payoff time) and doesn’t see an end in sight.
  — Katie Coss, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
• According to Kaplan, there was a small payoff for that approach and the fate of the film was out of his hands.
  — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 12 July 2023
• Well, the payoff happened just two weeks before the election.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• His payoff was Saturday, kicking for the Buckeyes in the first game of the season.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
• For Cole, one of the biggest payoffs is the delight visitors take in the garden.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
• But Jeremiah said the payoff is too plausible and too great for Williams not to go first.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• The gesture was rooted in kindness, but there was a payoff, too.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Still, fans committing to travel and attend F1 races want the payoff to be worth the buildup.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Both offer an escape from daily life, as well as the hope of a big payoff.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Because the visuals, acting, and payoff by the end are all 100% worth it.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• In the Daniels payoff, the crankocrat and the candidate were embodied in the same person, Trump.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
• The payoff for a tough climb up Storm King is the most magnificent view of Lake Crescent.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• That’s why episode four is important to me, because that’s where the love story payoff comes together, and all of their obstacles are clear.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
• That’s in stark contrast to the existing payoff plan, where the pension payment now amounts to about 19 percent of city revenue — a share that will drop sharply to about 11 percent in future years.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024

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pay off

2 of 2 verb

• I finally paid off the loan.
• At the end of the day, that’s what’s more likely to pay off for you in the long run.
  — Amelia Harnish, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2023
• Montes was able to stay in her apartment and pay off 83% of the past rent.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• Miller has plans to use the money to pay off her car loan.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• My grandma would need to pay off the plots over the course of many years.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• Over the course of a year it was paid off as legal fees, as was the invoice.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, the state’s going to pay off the county’s debt to build the lodge.
  — cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
• Clearly, all of that training for the Eras tour paid off.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2023
• But none of this has paid off: not with donors, not in poll numbers.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• The best thing for me was simply using the 2017 bull run to pay off my house.
  — Louis Cheslaw, Jenna Milliner-Waddell, Curbed, 22 Dec. 2022
• Yet even that is still less than will be needed to pay off the state’s bonds.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• His strategy didn't pay off even though the fight went the full 12 rounds.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2022
• The reality is it’s going to pay off at the end of the movie.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The drastic changes paid off, as the women won their first Olympic gold since 2012.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 11 Aug. 2024
• But it’s been in her family, and paid off, for decades.
  — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• The strategy paid off for Logano, while Blaney finished the race in 11th place.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2024
• The last-ditch effort from the Deep Space Network has now appeared to pay off.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 5 Aug. 2023
• But Wang stuck with the integrity of her story and that bet paid off.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Bieber is scaling the brand through marketing and so far, the plan has paid off.
  — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
• The Club stands firmly in the camp that AI initiatives will pay off over time.
  — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 30 July 2024
• Adding to the urgency was that Musk financed some of his takeover with bank loans and now had to pay off the debt.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2022
• One of the kids will have to surrender their child to the Devil to pay off their father’s debt.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024
• Going against Trump did not pay off for one of the candidates.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• The tactic can pay off, as the Red Bulls also likely get away with some fouls.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• And the investments are paying off — so far, at least — Huang claims.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
• The war in Ukraine may have pulled oil prices up, but some of the fund’s stock bets didn’t pay off, and the government is still in crisis.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
• That bet may have paid off, as Toyota boasts strong hybrid sales even as the rest of the EV market slows down.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 6 Mar. 2024
• In this week’s memo, the DNC points out their focus on Virginia did indeed pay off.
  — Gary Grumbach, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• For these famous faces, shooting their shot on social media paid off — well, most of the time — and led to love stories that have stood the test of time.
  — Julia Emmanuele, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• The re-hire has largely paid off, with Stewart’s return consistently delivering higher ratings than the show has seen in recent years.
  — Liam Reilly, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024