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
  • According to her, the mother has agreed to help with the down payment and costs.
    — Arabella Hau, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Think of this column as my down payment, just a small one, on both tasks.
    — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2021
  • The amount of your down payment depends on your finances and your lender.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • If the down payment exceeds that amount, wiring the money is the only option.
    — Zina Kumok, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • That production is a boon to their constituents – and a down payment on our nation’s future.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Millennials often have to rely on their family members to be able to afford a down payment on a home: 33 percent of younger millennials received down payment help in the form of a gift or a loan from a friend or relative, NAR found.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025

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