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Example sentences for: pays

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While no one really likes forking over taxes, that money pays for a multitude of government services and functions.
But the mayor pays Marx more respect by recognizing that his philosophy has some meaning worth criticizing than Kifner does by acting as if it is so dead and meaningless that anyone who takes it seriously is a fool.
A 13-year-old boy interviewed by the Los Angeles Times pays her the ultimate adolescent male compliment: "Michelle Akers, she's my thug."
He tells Time , "God knows that we have been pleased by the killing of American soldiers," and advises Newsweek that "[a]ny American who pays taxes is ...
In the United States, however, it seems that virtue pays homage to vice.