PAID in a Sentence

Learn PAID from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
292 example sentences for PAID, such as:
1. He paid scant attention to what was said.
2. I paid the cheque into my savings account.
3. She paid a circular visit among her relations.
4. Uncle Henry had paid last year's taxes on it for her.
5. His monthly salary is paid in the bank by his employer.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PAID
paid
 a.  marked by the reception of pay
 a.  involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No one paid her any attention and she was the only young unmarried woman present who did not have a beau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt--and talked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  He had good pilots and paid them well, and they slid out of Charleston and Wilmington on dark nights, bearing cotton for Nassau, England and Canada.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  So Mrs. Merriwether invited him to dinner, feeling that this concession more than paid for the gift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  She fervently wished she had paid more attention to the whispered conversations of matrons on the subject of childbirth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  She thought she heard a feeble call from the next room but she paid it no heed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  They say you ought to paid lots more taxes than you did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  She had been so engrossed with the job of making Tara produce she had paid little heed to what was going on in the world outside.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  Uncle Henry had paid last year's taxes on it for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  Vaguely she had a memory of Suellen chattering about Frank and a store but she never paid much heed to anything Suellen said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  And our folks had paid good solid money for it, and I thought it still ought to belong to the Confederacy or to the Confederates.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  They've got to have lumber for their houses, so I'm going to buy this mill just as soon as--well, as soon as some of the bills owing me are paid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  Will's letter hammered into her mind the fact she knew only too well--that time was getting shorter and shorter before the extra taxes must be paid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Will wrote that the taxes had been paid and Jonas Wilkerson "acted up pretty bad" at the news but had made no other threats so far.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  He's hard as nails and slick as a snake, but he'd be honest if it paid him to be honest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  The amount is calculated according to the number of years you have paid into the scheme.
2  I paid the cheque into my savings account.
3  What is actually paid will depend on the bonus payments made at the end of the policy.
4  It was a mark of his unfamiliarity with Hollywood that he didn't understand that an agent was paid out of his client's share.
5  I will agree to go provided/providing my expenses are paid.
6  Not only are mothers not paid but also most of their boring or difficult work is unnoticed.
7  You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
8  She paid a circular visit among her relations.
9  They sold the house for treble the amount they paid for it.
10  She complained that her husband never paid her any compliments any more.
11  He paid scant attention to what was said.
12  He never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
13  I have it on the best authority that we will be paid for our work next week.
14  His monthly salary is paid in the bank by his employer.
15  She always paid for their meals during rehearsals and they would troop off to the Express Dairy cafeteria opposite.