How to Use down payment in a Sentence

down payment

noun
  • We put a down payment on the house.
  • She made a 10 percent down payment on the car.
  • Who made the down payment, paid the bills, and made the repairs will be looked at.
    — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Cut those out of a budget and for many a down payment wouldn’t be out of reach.
    — WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The idea is to help buyers like the Bartlomes reach a 20% down payment.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The Madonias put the down payment on the lot last year — a time when home prices were soaring.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The couple wired the down payment, their savings, to crooks.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • This would free up your credit and help you with the down payment on your new home.
    — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025
  • One of the first steps is sending a portion of your down payment to the escrow agent to hold.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The program will match what the family saves over the year to use as a down payment on a house.
    — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • Bring in two box fans and get a thousand dollars off the down payment on a car.
    — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 23 June 2021
  • Consumers make a small down payment at the time of purchase and receive the item.
    — Meg Nakamura, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The higher the down payment, for example, the less time the duration tends to take.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The woman plans to use the money to put a down payment on a house and then save the rest, officials said.
    — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
  • The goal is for families to move in and save up enough money for a down payment on a new home.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Her goal now is to save money for a down payment for a small apartment.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2021
  • In January, the buyer returned with the $100 down payment — and the demand to take Zahra to Iran in the next three months.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • That includes wire fraud, such as attempts to steal a down payment.
    — Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Moore had made a down payment on a mobile home in Auburn Hills and was planning to move there with her son.
    — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2024
  • The down payments for the homes were financed by wire transfers from China.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
  • First-time home buyers can get a home loan with as little as a 3% down payment.
    — Shashank Shekhar, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The couple each owned 50% of the house, but Robertson put down all of the $1.8-million down payment, according to the suit.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • The net proceeds will mostly be used for the down payment on the next property.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 4 June 2022
  • On the following day, the couple, both 27, planned to go to work and turn in a down payment for their new home in Medway.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
  • Smaller down payments, on the other hand, mean more risk for the lender and higher rates for you as a result.
    — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 5 Oct. 2023
  • At the start, many of the potential tenants couldn’t make the down payment required to live at Brookside.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Well, Rhode Island did a lot better than a down payment.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • As a result, the dealer can use that money toward the down payment on your car.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2023
  • On Wednesday, Pine paid the detective $2,000 as a down payment for the murder.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
  • That means instead of waiting for months to get a credit on their tax returns, buyers can get the credit knocked off the price of a vehicle and even use it as a down payment.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025

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