PAWN in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for PAWN, such as:
1. They became pawns in the political battle.
2. We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.
3. Of all items pawned, jewellery is the most common.
4. For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora.
5. I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
2. We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.
3. Of all items pawned, jewellery is the most common.
4. For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora.
5. I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
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Meanings and Examples of PAWN
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pawn
n. an article deposited as security
n. a person used by another to gain an end
Classic Sentence:
1 "We'll try to," replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing his hand.
2 As to the washerwoman pawning the clothes, and coming in a state of penitent intoxication to apologize, I suppose that might have happened several times to anybody.
3 He had done for himself in the office, pawned his watch, spent all his money; and he had not even got drunk.
4 He had set up house for her six times; and each time she had pawned the furniture on him.
5 The woman took Cosette's outfit to Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs.
6 For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora.
7 I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
Example Sentence:
1 China's earliest pawn shops were run by Buddhist monasteries; in recent decades monks are keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.
2 In the first two films, Katniss was a pawn of Panem's dastardly, white-bearded President Snow (Donald Sutherland, forever sneering).
3 When he answered, he told her recklessly that he had not been to see her because his best clothes were in pawn.
4 Of all items pawned, jewellery is the most common.
5 They became pawns in the political battle.
6 We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.