Example Sentences

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“I have paid for all of your layaways for Christmas,” Perry said smiling.

From Fox News • Dec. 7, 2018

Did Carole’s family pay off the dead girl’s Christmas gifts in department store layaways?

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry