How to use "paid" in a sentence

Well, after that, Jenny asked me to play with their group every Friday, and paid me $25 every time!

Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

She lived in a lodging house and paid eight pennies a night

It is probable that Mrs Prater and Mrs Lewis paid no attention to Mary Kelly's last terrified cry for help!

Many of them paid to look at the murder scenes from windows

Valjean was so hungry that, at first, he paid no attention to anyone

At the end of the year, however, Thenardier was not happy with just seven francs a month; he demanded twelve and Fantine paid without protest, happy that her daughter was being well cared for.

Marius paid little attention to his friend, and continued his quiet life of work, study and daily walks.

My warm-hearted neighbour, I have heard of how you kindly paid my rent for me six months ago

The Jondrette family had been Marius's neighbours for many months, but he had never before paid much attention to them

He had heard them and seen them, but had paid them no attention, and he suddenly felt guilty.

Early the following morning, he paid the concierge his final rent and went to live with his friend, Enjolras

People were running around, and there was a lot of noise, but Marius paid little attention

At the end of the rue de l'Homme-Arme, which was too narrow for the carriage to enter, Javert paid the driver and accompanied Valjean to his front door on foot.

We can get what you paid for this back, I'm sure..."

I hated my life with Mrs Van Hopper, but she paid me a little money to be her companion

The person who paid a fair price for something was likely to place far more value on it than the one who got the same item for nothing

I paid every loan installment

Considering the high price that they had paid for the pathetically insufficient information they had obtained, he couldn't tolerate the prospect of all their pain and fear and anxiety having been for naught.

Consequently, he was paid for another draft

He was contemptuous of the book he was paid to adapt, of me, and of the entire TV industry, to which he would never return (he assured me with a glower) after his first smash-hit film

She knew we'd connect it with the first one, so she paid some village boy to make the call for her

I paid little attention to the road in front of me, and then suddenly my attention was caught by something

I do not think that nearly enough attention is being paid to this

When he killed twelve chickens, and I paid for them, I changed my opinion of Montmorency

We agreed and paid her.

She took the motor with thanks; the price she paid was her silence about Mercy

Sir Percival Glyde very kindly paid for the asylum, and I thank him for that.

When she was older, they paid for her to go to a women's school in Paris.

When women started to do paid work in the 19th and early 20th centuries, almost half of it was cleaning and cooking in other people's homes

But women earned half the money that was paid to men for the same jobs

After a long fight, the BBC paid Carrie the same amount of money as the men were paid.

They are often paid less, and sexism and sexual harassment at work are a problem every day