Example sentences for: overpaid

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

  • Murray Kempton got this story right in 1955, in his book Part of Our Time . The Hollywood Communists, most of them screenwriters, were overpaid hacks, not dangerous revolutionaries.

  • Why would an orchestra prefer an overpaid, absentee landlord like Muti or Abbado to a dedicated resident, especially given that the latter is likely to come much cheaper?

  • 4. She's overpaid.

  • I can't speak about the CBO study, but I've seen the one from RAND, and its conclusions are more complicated than he suggests--that junior enlisted servicemen are overpaid compared to their civilian counterparts, senior enlisted are slightly underpaid, junior officers moderately underpaid, and senior officers seriously underpaid.

  • Even there, though, the magic of the Internet auction helps out one last time: He who has overpaid for Faye Dunaway's eye mask can enjoy it for a bit and then put it right back up for auction.


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