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Example sentences for "pay for"

  • I break a dish by that Latham woman's house and she vant me to pay for it.

  • Mother said: 'Mr. Strout, when you sold me the place you said I could have plenty of time to pay for it.

  • And remember that I can't, and won't, pay for sweetbreads at a dollar and a half a pair.

  • When one person has done anything the others have to pay for it too.

  • Since we were sitting all mixed up everyone had to pay for himself, and Father said next day we had spent a perfect fortune; but that was not in the hotel, it happened later, when we were buying mementoes.

  • Father wanted to pay for it altogether, but I said: No, then it would not be my present, and so I paid five crowns and Father 37.

  • You'll pay for it,' he snarls, his temper gettin' free at last.

  • I like to travel, and I'm willin' to pay for it.

  • I gen'rally do pay for what I want, and a fair price, at that.

  • You'll have to pay for somethin' that's priceless, and how are you goin' to do that?

  • I ordered lunch and if we don't eat it I will have to pay for it anyway.

  • I'll try as woman never did before to bring you happiness to pay for it.

  • And he will make me pay for it afterward.

  • He hesitated an instant, and thought of coming later; but the drive was long and the loss would not amount to enough to pay for a second trip.

  • Later, he told me I could read them all, without having to pay for it.

  • And nobody refused to take it and to pay for it, because they all knew that otherwise embarrassment would follow.

  • These lessons were most naturally for free, since my parents were too poor to pay for them.

  • There was nothing financial, still less sordid, in her previsions: she cared about what were considered refinements, and not about the money that was to pay for them.

  • I shall have a sufficient salary to pay for my board, as of course I should wish to do.

  • You will do with a suit or two less, I fancy, when you have to pay for 'em.

  • It gives them a lift for a time, but afterwards they have to pay for it over and over again.

  • Only we had got into a world where everybody had everything they wanted, or else had the money to pay for it.

  • All the storekeepers began to get up fresh goods, and to send money in notes and cheques to pay for them.

  • Rich people do not travel in this style, and I therefore have the right to ask if you can afford to pay for my pasty?

  • It is the anguish of my conscience which makes me fearful; this suffering I must bear, it is the penalty I pay for my great happiness.

  • This is an enormously expensive dish, and I have no reason to believe that you are in a condition to pay for it.

  • We're going to pay for that," said Fatty.

  • I wouldn't take anything I couldn't pay for," said Susan.

  • You'll have Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinĂ©es, but they don't pay for them.

  • I'll pay for my own clothes--and rouge for my lips.

  • What I want is some points which may save me needless expense, and which I'm prepared to pay for, money down.

  • But when you want a thing in this world, you generally always have to pay for it.

  • I have always felt proud that she refused to go into debt for that which she did not have the money to pay for.

  • The price we pay for this is the pleasure, the adventure, the unique experience.

  • Sometimes, the price people seem to pay for it is very high-unemployment, dislocation, retrenchment, a loss of a sense of permanency that humans long for.

  • I've got enough money to pay for a new one - if only you'll be a dear and go and buy it for us.

  • I'm always willing to pay for damages, though I suppose if my Uncle Ezra Larabee was here he'd haggle with that farmer and make him throw in a pig or two for luck.

  • You might bust a tire, and then you'd expect me to pay for it.

  • They might bust something, and want me to pay for it.

  • But they has t' pay for 'em all the same.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pay for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being like; book illustration; brisk pace; could believe; flesh yellowish; foreign intercourse; gold production; green vegetables; hunt deer; judge thou; lantern slides; level keel; much celebrated; pay for; pay him; pay his; pay their; paying tribute; paying women; pays des; press agent; repeat what; responsible authority; week ago; where would; white chillun