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.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAWN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pawn
 n.  something given as security for loan; pledge or guaranty; article deposited as security
Classic Sentence:
1  "We'll try to," replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing his hand.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
3  He had done for himself in the office, pawned his watch, spent all his money; and he had not even got drunk.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
4  He had set up house for her six times; and each time she had pawned the furniture on him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
5  The woman took Cosette's outfit to Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
6  For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
7  I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
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.