Sentence examples for was paying off from inspiring English sources

"It felt like, finally, school was paying off," he said.

It was paying off; I ran my best 10K time ever at practice.

He said he was paying off $70,000 in lawyer's fees.

For once, CNN's pundit-heavy staff was paying off instead of embarrassing itself.

Muckler's gamble in signing him before the lockout was paying off this season.

The agency's harshness was paying off — migrants were getting the message.

Mr. Dauman said the company was making an "unprecedented investment in content" that was paying off for Nickelodeon.

Martín Lara, Rubén's teacher, said the intense focus on math was paying off because his math skills were solidifying.

Nathan said the offensive against government critics and independent thinkers was paying off for the Communist party.

As proof that the strategy was paying off, the world's biggest full-service banks, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, were racing up the capital-markets league tables.

The improvement in the company's home region showed that the October acquisition was paying off, just as the economic recovery was gathering steam.