How to Use layaway in a Sentence

layaway

noun
  • The store offers a layaway plan for large purchases.
  • We bought the table and chairs on layaway, so we won't have them until December.
  • He, too, should be headed to the Giants in the next week or two, with his No. 68 held here on layaway.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Buy-now, pay-later for travel is a type of layaway plan.
    Allison Pohle, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Knowing the Switch is hard to find, Krallman offered to let someone take over the layaway.
    Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2020
  • All tickets are available on a layaway plan for $10 down.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The prices were low enough that working-class folk could afford them—if not outright, then on layaway.
    Michaela Angela Davis, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
  • For store financing, rent-to-own, and layaway plans, carefully read the fine print.
    Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Fans can secure any ticket type on layaway for a $9.95 deposit.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 3 May 2022
  • Templeton said the donor first approached him on Friday about the idea of wanting to pay off every single layaway item in the store.
    Daniella Genovese, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2020
  • In essence, the airline is now allowing people to book their plane tickets on layaway.
    Cynthia Drescher, CNT, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The Edge of Extinction has a no layaway and no return policy.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020
  • According to Tannahill, the winner of the contest is required to go into a gun store where the gun is being held on layaway.
    Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Clothing or footwear under $100 put on layaway is also tax-free.
    Courant Community, 22 Aug. 2017
  • In a sense, buy now pay, later is similar to layaway, but with one key difference.
    Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Inside, Joseph Baivatu, 29, prepares to make the next payment on a layaway for something very special: a large sperm whale tooth.
    Serena Solomon, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Shoppers can put items as low as $10 on layaway with a $50 minimum basket.
    Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The purchase of new gift cards and layaway programs have been discontinued.
    Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 28 June 2021
  • A few days ago, McGraw’s mom went to a local Walmart and paid off $5,000 worth of jewelry layaway and gave out cash to customers on the couple’s behalf.
    Lindsay Dreyer, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2016
  • A few days ago, McGraw’s mom went to a local Walmart and paid off $5,000 worth of jewelry layaway and gave out cash to customers on the couple’s behalf.
    Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Any qualifying items put on layaway — or paid off — between Aug. 11-13 are tax-free.
    Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The suspect returned later that day and put two firearms on layaway, giving the store his name and contact information.
    Joanne Berger Dumound/special To Cleveland.com., cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • That service is not offered by Walmart, which only does layaway for the Christmas season.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Perry has come to the rescue for everyday people, offering to pay for the homes of those in need and layaway for low-income families.
    Stephanie Toone, ajc, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The payment covered all the store's 300 holiday layaway accounts.
    Amanda Jackson, CNN, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Tanners treated hides in these vats, called layaway vats, for up to a year in successive tanning solutions.
    Samuel M. Riley, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Store layaway, subprime credit cards and bad-credit personal loans all give you time to pay off the purchase at APRs below 36 percent.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The lending practice is similar to layaway and credit card services.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 7 June 2022
  • Before agreeing to a store’s layaway plan, be sure to ask whether the retailer charges a fee for its program and whether payments and fees are refundable if the purchase is canceled or returned.
    David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Klarna pioneered a digital rebrand of layaway plans, which allow shoppers to spread the cost of purchases over weeks or months, as buy now, pay later.
    Iain Martin, Forbes, 28 May 2022

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