Example sentences for: paid

How can you use “paid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Justice Department and Kenneth Starr are battling over who should investigate whether or not some of conservative money-man Richard Mellon Scaife's dough ended up being paid to Starr witness David Hale to influence his Whitewater testimony against Bill Clinton.

  • Berlaymont has been closed for nine years after an asbestos scare and a botched cleanup: European taxpayers have paid $50 million so far merely to keep the building closed, with air pumps running around the clock to prevent any fibers from wafting out.

  • We should have everything, paid for by someone else who shall remain nameless.

  • But on the subject of "those gals," if I paid the kind of money Linda Tripp's supporters must have paid for her makeover, I'd be expecting the surgeon to keep his mouth shut.

  • Celebrities paid by drug companies to promote drugs, or ‘raise awareness’ about disease, should be subject to the same rules as direct-to-consumer advertising, which would mean prohibition in many nations and much more fulsome disclosure in the United States than is currently the case.


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