How to Use pay down in a Sentence

pay down

verb
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  • Keep in mind, there was a price to pay down the stretch for the prolonged R&R.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Hence, there was no urgent need to use the free cash flow to pay down debt.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Even before Covid-19 hit, the U.S. was nowhere close to paying down its debt.
    — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • At the same time, AT&T is paying down more than $143.3 billion in debt.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
  • Time will tell if the new measures get approved during the vote and if the moves are enough to pay down the debt load.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • This may result in a stronger economy that can help pay down the debt.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Many of the moves were part of an effort to help pay down an enormous debt load of about $50 billion.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The proceeds could be used to pay down debt taken on in the Monsanto deal.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
  • His wife, Ada, is a novelist whose books have paid down the mortgage.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Zaslav era of WBD has seen a tremendous amount of cuts and layoffs in an effort to pay down debt.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 July 2024
  • Under the plan, the credit card issuers reduce the rate so people can pay down the debt in full, Holt said.
    — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The surplus – which hasn’t been seen since – allowed the U.S. to pay down the national debt by over $450 billion.
    — Linda J. Bilmes, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Morris Brown had filed for bankruptcy and sold 30 acres to pay down debt.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Of those people, more than a quarter said paying down their debt would take a year or longer.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • And billions will be left over to pay down federal deficits.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • This money can now be used to build up your emergency fund or pay down debt.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The second largest group will be people who have been paying down their loans for 20 years or more, but still haven’t paid it off.
    — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 31 July 2024
  • And a shuttered government, without a plan for how to pay down its debt, would make the problem worse.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Buy some credit that can be paid down against the big, grindy back-end replumbing stuff that sometimes has to be done.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Their basic plan is cost cuts, find a partner for Paramount+, and sell some assets to pay down its $12 billion in debt.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
  • Be ready to pay down debt before the end of the pause to take advantage of the interest-free period.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Since the merger, the company has paid down almost $11 billion of its debt.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But acute unemployment makes those debts hard to pay down.
    — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Those bonds are paid down with sales tax revenue generated at the site.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The tax pays down the debt the county took on to fund renovations at Kauffman and Arrowhead.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2024
  • In order to keep his company intact, Zaslav would have to use its cash flow to pay down that debt.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
  • To that end, the company is using the cash raised to pay down its debt, and to fund some strategic acquisitions.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
  • With the Dodgers, Friedman focused on paying down those kinds of contracts, or waiting them out.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • If passed, a companion tax reform bill would pay for the plan over 15 years and pay down deficits thereafter, according to the White House.
    — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The remainder, slightly more than $850 million, will be used to pay down pension debt.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2024

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