Sample Sentences for
down payment
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    Then, deciding land was too risky for investing either time or money, he turned to the ocean, started fishing out of Santa Monica, and did well enough at it through the late thirties that by December of 1941 he had those two boats, The Waka and The Nereid, a lease on that beach house in Ocean Park, and a nearly new Studebaker he had made a down payment on two weeks before Pearl Harbor was attacked.  (source)
    down payment = a partial payment made at the time of purchase
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    You can put a down payment on it and carry it on home with you.  (source)
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    He had scraped together just enough money for a down payment on a house, but was still so poor that Cissy's crib was the house's only furniture.  (source)
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    A few months later, we used the advance for my second novel and placed a down payment on a pretty, two-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Bernal Heights.  (source)
    down payment = a partial payment made at the time of purchase
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    Call it a down-payment, if you want.†  (source)
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    "Can we afford it?" Seven asks. Momma raises an eyebrow. "Yes, we can." "But like down payments and stuff—"  (source)
    down payments = initial cash payment made in addition to a promise to repay a loan at the time of a purchase
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    Since we had no money for a down payment and no steady income, our options were pretty limited, but within a couple of days, Mom and Dad told us they had found a house we could afford.  (source)
    down payment = partial cash payment made at the time of purchase
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    Lale extends his hand, Victor takes it, and the diamond changes hands. "Down payment. See you tomorrow?"  (source)
    Down payment = a partial payment made at the time of purchase
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    The agent demanded their money and Saeed gave it to him, uncertain whether they were making a down payment or being robbed.  (source)
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    He wouldn't hear of taking any money from me, not as a favor, not as a loan, not as an investment, or even as the down payment on a partnership.  (source)
    down payment = a partial payment made at the time of a purchase
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    A down payment on my own apartment where I won't have to be Adri's servant anymore?†  (source)
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    (Pause) I gave her a five-dollar down payment†  (source)
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    As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down payment on a DDA flat.†  (source)
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