How to Use down payment in a Sentence

down payment

noun

• We put a down payment on the house.
• She made a 10 percent down payment on the car.
• Who made the down payment, paid the bills, and made the repairs will be looked at.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Cut those out of a budget and for many a down payment wouldn’t be out of reach.
  — WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
• The Madonias put the down payment on the lot last year — a time when home prices were soaring.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• The couple wired the down payment, their savings, to crooks.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• One of the first steps is sending a portion of your down payment to the escrow agent to hold.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• The program will match what the family saves over the year to use as a down payment on a house.
  — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• The higher the down payment, for example, the less time the duration tends to take.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• The woman plans to use the money to put a down payment on a house and then save the rest, officials said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
• The goal is for families to move in and save up enough money for a down payment on a new home.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
• In January, the buyer returned with the $100 down payment — and the demand to take Zahra to Iran in the next three months.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• That includes wire fraud, such as attempts to steal a down payment.
  — Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Moore had made a down payment on a mobile home in Auburn Hills and was planning to move there with her son.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2024
• The down payments for the homes were financed by wire transfers from China.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
• First-time home buyers can get a home loan with as little as a 3% down payment.
  — Shashank Shekhar, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The couple each owned 50% of the house, but Robertson put down all of the $1.8-million down payment, according to the suit.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• The net proceeds will mostly be used for the down payment on the next property.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 4 June 2022
• On the following day, the couple, both 27, planned to go to work and turn in a down payment for their new home in Medway.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
• Smaller down payments, on the other hand, mean more risk for the lender and higher rates for you as a result.
  — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 5 Oct. 2023
• At the start, many of the potential tenants couldn’t make the down payment required to live at Brookside.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
• Well, Rhode Island did a lot better than a down payment.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• As a result, the dealer can use that money toward the down payment on your car.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2023
• The money can go to buy down mortgage rates or help with down payments and closing costs.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• The Dreschers called a friend who lived in the area to tell them about the sale; two weeks later, the acquaintance offered to loan them the down payment.
  — Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022
• The larger your down payment on a new car, the lower your monthly payments will be.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2023
• The average down payment for a new vehicle climbed to a record of $6,956 in the first three months, Edmunds said.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• When the informant told him the device would cost about $120, Smith handed over a down payment.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
• Parental help in homebuying isn't new — many of you shared stories of your parents helping out with a down payment in the 1990s.
  — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
• The contract is a down payment on what is expected to be at least a $1.7 billion project to replace the Key Bridge over the Patapsco River.
  — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024