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How To Use paid In A Sentence

• Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
• The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.
• The money is commonly laundered via cash deposits to friends or family members' bank accounts and is quickly withdrawn to be paid to the gang leaders. Times, Sunday Times
• Jeannine's work became focused on freebirth - birth unassisted by a paid professional.
• He said it was because he was paid to sit around and drink milkshakes all day.
• But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
• One sheriff admitted handing out 6000 certificates, for which he was either paid a shilling or given a dram of whisky.
• I have paid a small fortune in tuition fees to my local pool to teach both my children to swim.
• Nevertheless, CNN has talked to a "language analyst" who gets paid to "[analyze and catalogue] trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture," and they report that Obama was too "professorial," and now America is at grave risk of not passing its midterm exams on the oil spill. Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]
• In her twenties, she enjoyed the life of a highly paid executive at a dotcom company to the full. Times, Sunday Times