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Example sentences for: paid

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The culprit, fearing unmasking by classmates, stepped forward and paid $1,755 to the sheriff who investigated the incident.
As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in the London Sunday Mirror reporting claims that Clarke had paid for sex with young boys.
The president and senior vice-president of Salt Lake Organizing Committee resigned Friday in the wake charges that the committee paid off International Olympic Committee members who helped vote on Salt Lake City as the Olympic venue.
Maybe you don't think that income will get paid out in higher wages, but it has to show up somewhere . And why should we imagine that people in emerging countries, unlike people in advanced nations, cannot find things to spend their money on?
I think this is the price that Reagan consciously paid for fighting the Cold War.