Read full poem →Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue."
Dictionary Entry
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
In a Sentence
“he paid her off the books and in kind where possible”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. paidoff paid
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Poetry examples for “paid”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Was never given in vain;
"Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
Read full poem →And little would be left you, I'm afraid,
If all your debts to Greece and Rome were paid.
From this deep fund our author largely draws,
Read full poem →In various talk the instructive hours they pass'd,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;
One speaks the glory of the British Queen,
Read full poem →Let me not cast away;
For God is paid when man receives,
To enjoy is to obey.
Read full poem →A wisp of paper is twisted carefully into the strands of the dead man's hair.
It says, "My Lord: Your wife's paramour has paid with his life
for the high favour."
Read full poem →forwhich and his pardon he paid ^10,000.
Henry Ford. — So much in debt he cannot
Read full poem →Bribe-master Clifford's hands, who baa
ah-eady paid off ^7,000 of them.
Read full poem →Such is my bond, none can discharge but I,
Yet paying is not paid until I die.
Read full poem →who from candour, or friendship, appears to have acquiesced iu
every respect paid to the memory of Beaumont.