How to Use payoff in a Sentence
- You'll have to work hard but there'll be a big payoff in the end.
- He lost his factory job but received a payoff and a pension.
- Several city officials have been accused of receiving payoffs from the company.
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That’s also why the scares and the laughs have so much payoff.
—Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
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Ready for this?Summit hike near Phoenix will test you, and the payoff is so worth it.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
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But there also is the payoff factor, and that led to new math in the wake of the trade deadline.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
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More:Summit hike near Phoenix will test you, and the payoff is so worth it.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
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The products are easy to wear and give a good color payoff.
—ELLE, 8 Sep. 2023
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This shade is a perfect my-lips-but-better colour on me, and the payoff is huge.
—Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2023
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Why Trust Us? Trimming your brows is a quick fix with a big payoff.
—Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
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This deal was about rolling the dice for a potential payoff in the future.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
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The payoff wasn’t the pay, but the freedom to write songs without restrictions.
—Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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The slow-jam tease of the buildup makes the payoff worth it — and all of this in what amounts to only one chapter of the roving story.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
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Two common debt payoff methods are the snowball method and the avalanche method.
—Becca Stanek, The Week, 26 July 2023
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She’s been paying those loans off for over a decade (the standard payoff time) and doesn’t see an end in sight.
—Katie Coss, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
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According to Kaplan, there was a small payoff for that approach and the fate of the film was out of his hands.
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 12 July 2023
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Well, the payoff happened just two weeks before the election.
—ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
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His payoff was Saturday, kicking for the Buckeyes in the first game of the season.
—Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
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For Cole, one of the biggest payoffs is the delight visitors take in the garden.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
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But Jeremiah said the payoff is too plausible and too great for Williams not to go first.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
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The gesture was rooted in kindness, but there was a payoff, too.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 June 2023
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Still, fans committing to travel and attend F1 races want the payoff to be worth the buildup.
—Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
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Both offer an escape from daily life, as well as the hope of a big payoff.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
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Because the visuals, acting, and payoff by the end are all 100% worth it.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
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In the Daniels payoff, the crankocrat and the candidate were embodied in the same person, Trump.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
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The payoff for a tough climb up Storm King is the most magnificent view of Lake Crescent.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
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The shades, the packaging, and the colour payoff are all obsession-worthy.
—Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2023
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Day has noticed how his best running back has worked the past nine months and now he’s spent the first two weeks of fall camp watching the payoff to that.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
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That’s why episode four is important to me, because that’s where the love story payoff comes together, and all of their obstacles are clear.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
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That’s in stark contrast to the existing payoff plan, where the pension payment now amounts to about 19 percent of city revenue — a share that will drop sharply to about 11 percent in future years.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
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At the end of the day, that’s what’s more likely to pay off for you in the long run.
—Amelia Harnish, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2023
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Montes was able to stay in her apartment and pay off 83% of the past rent.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
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Miller has plans to use the money to pay off her car loan.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
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My grandma would need to pay off the plots over the course of many years.
—Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
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Over the course of a year it was paid off as legal fees, as was the invoice.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
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Clearly, all of that training for the Eras tour paid off.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2023
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But none of this has paid off: not with donors, not in poll numbers.
—Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
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But it’s been in her family, and paid off, for decades.
—Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
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The strategy paid off for Logano, while Blaney finished the race in 11th place.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2024
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The last-ditch effort from the Deep Space Network has now appeared to pay off.
—Justin Klawans, The Week, 5 Aug. 2023
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But Wang stuck with the integrity of her story and that bet paid off.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
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The Club stands firmly in the camp that AI initiatives will pay off over time.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 30 July 2024
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Going against Trump did not pay off for one of the candidates.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
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That bet may have paid off, as Toyota boasts strong hybrid sales even as the rest of the EV market slows down.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 6 Mar. 2024
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In this week’s memo, the DNC points out their focus on Virginia did indeed pay off.
—Gary Grumbach, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
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For a project that pays off, choose high-quality paint that will stand up to time and the elements.
—Alicia Chilton, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
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Casting Chalamet has paid off the for the film, which has earned strong nods.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
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Carpenter expects to have paid off more than half her credit card debt by the end of the year.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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Honesty will pay off when getting others to pitch in and help.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
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As was so often the case in his life, Walt won the day and proved that creative ambition could pay off in the long run.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
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Getting his own agent paid off — Jack made his acting debut in 2012's The Hunger Games.
—Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
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In fact, plenty of big marketing swings fail to pay off.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 May 2024
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Will these Hail Mary category plays pay off in the end?
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
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More than 170 employees have paid off their loans, New York Life said.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
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When Jimmy Kimmel takes the stage March 12 to host the Oscars for a third time, his months of prep work will surely pay off.
—Elizabeth Leonard, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
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The sport’s big bet on Las Vegas paid off as the race got rave reviews from F1 insiders.
—Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
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The bets paid off and Shake Shack is paying for these sandwiches, fries and desserts as a result.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
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Reed has been battling a bad knee, but her work has been paying off for herself and the Bruins.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
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Patience has paid off for Cisco in its effort to buy Splunk.
—Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
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Paris wanted to prove that its years-long gamble on the river has paid off, and today, the city and the athletes are flush with victory (and hopefully not E. coli).
—Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
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