Examples of payment in a Sentence
Payment is due on the first of every month.
Prompt payment of your bill ensures that you will not have to pay any additional fees.
We require payment in advance for all goods purchased.
a payment plan to reduce your debt
cash, credit cards, and other methods of payment
Our records show that we received a payment of $215.36 in May.
Buy this product for three easy payments of only $19.95!
It took me five years to pay off the car, but I never missed a payment.
making payments on a loan
The credit card company just increased the penalty on late payments.
Recent Examples on the Web
Kilpatrick was also approved for a payment plan.
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Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
Miami-Dade’s then-program administrator, Cristina Reboredo Leon, streamlined the process by having the Alliance for Aging — a county program that oversees such payments — expedite the monthly subsidies.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
Specifically, Morris asked Gateway for a one-time payment of $1 million and an annual retirement package of $600,000 to $800,000 for the rest of the couple’s lives, according to Tarrant County court documents filed by the church.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2026
The defendants billed Medicare for reimbursement payments for hospice care for patients over several years, federal officials said, but many of those patients were not terminally ill.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
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Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
Miami-Dade’s then-program administrator, Cristina Reboredo Leon, streamlined the process by having the Alliance for Aging — a county program that oversees such payments — expedite the monthly subsidies.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
Specifically, Morris asked Gateway for a one-time payment of $1 million and an annual retirement package of $600,000 to $800,000 for the rest of the couple’s lives, according to Tarrant County court documents filed by the church.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2026
The defendants billed Medicare for reimbursement payments for hospice care for patients over several years, federal officials said, but many of those patients were not terminally ill.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
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“Payment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/payment. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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payment
noun
pay·ment
ˈpā-mənt 
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