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Example sentences for "pay the"

  • Of course, mother can't pay the mortgage; it is hard enough to pay the interest on it.

  • He had come to pay the queen, his mother, the customary morning visit, but when told she had desired that no one should be admitted to her presence, he was not willing that an exception should be made in his favor.

  • Has the girl who is rich enough to pay the debts of a Pollnitz no guardian?

  • God grant he may not forget who it was that induced Frederick William to pay the debts of the prince royal, and to present him with the Trakener stud.

  • The Limberlost is going to buy the books, the clothes, pay the tuition, and even start a college fund.

  • It takes all we can earn to pay the tax, and mother wouldn't cut a tree for her life.

  • You are going to buy the books, pay the tuition, and take me to high school.

  • If she told her mother, would she take the money to pay the taxes?

  • These people that you see in the pitcher might be able to get a better dinner than this if it wasn't that most of the money wot the bloke earns 'as to pay the rent.

  • She never saw a penny of all his money; and, indeed, once when she asked him to pay the rent, he beat her so cruelly that she was laid up in bed for a week.

  • Pay the driver, and keep the rest yourself.

  • Fortunat ordered him to pay the driver, while he himself rushed upstairs, eager to arrange his plan of campaign--to use his own expression.

  • I went up to pay the rent; but we did get a-talkin' about the trial,' replied Sam.

  • If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs, Sir?

  • Give her to understand that you think me a wicked old man, who wants you to pay the price of infamy for the services I wish to render to you.

  • At the present moment he was remembering that he owed recompense to Mrs. Finn, and was making an effort to pay the debt.

  • Mrs. Boncassen had probably been told that it ought to be so, and Mr. Boncassen had been willing to pay the bill.

  • Would Lord Silverbridge be so good as to pay the money to Mr. Green Griffin and debit him, Tifto, with the share of his loss?

  • Not in terms, but in effect, this was his thought as he walked on up-town to pay the first of the visits which Dryfoos had practically invited him to resume.

  • He had probably got out of money and had hurried home while he had still enough to pay the second-cabin fare on the first boat back.

  • If the worst came to the worst you could have lent him money to pay the difference, and got him into the first-cabin.

  • They have now to pay the market-price for every stick of firewood which they burn, for every log which they require for repairing their houses, and for every rood of land on which to graze their cattle.

  • Do as he tells you," said the tschorbadji, in an entreating tone; "pay the tax he demands.

  • They are all rebels, and the ulemas and the sheik were their leaders--these, sir, were the men who counselled the people not to pay the taxes.

  • They refused to pay the tax," said the tschorbadji, in an angry voice.

  • They all refused to pay the fines, and said their little ones could be entrusted to the care of Providence till their mothers and sisters have broken the shackles of oppression by means of passive resistance.

  • She has risen above the idea that by tariff exactions the foreigners can be made to pay the sages.

  • While the nations of Europe are involving themselves in the toils of debts, we should use our vast surplus wealth to pay the national, state and municipal debts, even those contracted for public improvements.

  • It would take ninety million years' work to pay the cost of the war; or ninety million American laborers might pay it off in one year, if all their living expenses were paid.

  • When he drew out his bill-folder to pay the cab-man you couldn't help seeing hundreds and thousands of dollars in it.

  • Dunkirk newly sold, and the money brought over; of which we hope to get some to pay the Navy: which by Sir J.

  • The rents from the mortgaged estates are not enough to pay the interest on the sums he has borrowed.

  • As for your farms at Orchies, the rents scarcely suffice to pay the interest of the sums you have borrowed--" "Then what are we living on?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pay the" 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:
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