How to Use payback in a Sentence

payback

noun

• They beat our team last year, so we've got to beat them this year as payback.
• Any kid on the school yard will tell you that paybacks are hell.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 27 June 2018
• Legends keep them in the soul, a pilot light for payback.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Now, Rasella wants payback—in the form of a class action suit.
  — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 13 Apr. 2022
• The cops are all paid off; the characters fear payback, not jail time.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2021
• And when this virus has run its course and we’re back to playing games, there will be payback.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 11 Mar. 2020
• Getting some payback sure would be a sweet start to the season.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2021
• Neiman Marcus had asked for payback terms that phased out in 2026.
  — Dallas News, 25 May 2022
• The snake theme, which served as the connecting thread in a six-act, 105-minute show, was Swift’s idea of payback.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• Angley later wrote in one of his many books that the storm was God’s payback.
  — Bill Lubinger, cleveland, 7 May 2021
• The catch was payback for the Angels, who lost a homer to Hernández's glove on Monday.
  — Greg Beacham, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Acuña got some payback by stealing his 15th base in the second. ...
  — George Henry, ajc, 19 June 2021
• Houston wants some payback for the way the Heat drilled them in Miami.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• In the most simplistic sense, UCLA has gotten its karmic payback in the last two weeks.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
• Scenes of bloody payback are a common motif in Goines’ books.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2022
• The payback period could be three to five years for retrofits and longer for new builds, Mr. Allwright said.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• This comes in the form of quid-pro-quo political payback to donors.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Call it karmic payback for the teams playing Sunday’s game in a snappy 1:57.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• After all, there's the little matter of payback for the murder of 007's wife.
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 29 May 2024
• Spend is already at a 15-year low and the focus is on short-cycle, quick-payback projects.
  — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Customers are on the hook for repaying the loans, and the payback period could stretch for as long as 30 years.
  — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2022
• Should the pirate king hide out in the Caribbean or head to England for payback?
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Experts said the loans were unusually large, and the timing of the payback was strange.
  — John Hanna, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
• There needs to be fairness and payback in taking care of New Jersey.
  — Gerard Gayou, WSJ, 20 July 2018
• Now that baseball has returned, the Dodgers’ first move should consist of payback.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• The payback period to recoup the cost of the system would simply take too long.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2019
• While a win offers a total cash payout, a loss means 100% payback in the form of a Barstool bet credit.
  — cleveland, 7 Jan. 2023
• Phoenix has to get used to facing teams that wanted payback from a season ago.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
• All bonuses or First Bet Reset paybacks will be rewarded in bonus bets that must be used within seven (7) days of receipt.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• Butts asked to reprogram money meant for highway projects and create a payback mechanism funded through a special tax district.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024