How to Use pawn in a Sentence
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His desire to cross pawns again.
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Ashlee Conour,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Love pawn stars and have been a customer in your shop.
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Emily Trainham,
FOXNews.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Even so, the foes and all the king’s pawns find ways to change the chess board.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Aug. 2025
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The trace led to a Hobart pawn shop.
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Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2026
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And then my wife’s wedding ring took its fourth trip to the pawn shop.
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Breanna Bell,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2023
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The costume is meant to reflect the pawns in a game of chess.
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Olivia Wakim,
AJC.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Buy from pawn shops over new jewelry stores.
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Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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Were they killed by rival drug gangs who treated them like pawns?
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Manuel Mendoza,
Dallas News,
7 June 2023
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We’re being used as pawns in a much bigger chess game here.
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Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Children are pawns in this tug of war over their learning and their minds.
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WSJ,
16 Mar. 2023
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Maybury headed to the pawn shop.
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Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Nov. 2025
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To be sure, there are inherent risks with pawn shops that could hurt the stocks.
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Itzel Franco,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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Around 200 are still pawns in a high-stakes game of blackmail.
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CBS News,
29 Oct. 2023
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No child should be used as a political pawn.
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Mercury News Editorial Board,
Mercury News,
27 May 2026
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Those turned away are instead turning up at the local pawn shop.
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Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Here's what pawn shops reveal about the state of the economy.
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USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2024
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Weeks of checking pawn shops and posting reward signs went nowhere.
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Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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There’s a common refrain that the troops are being used as pawns.
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Dave Smith,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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Wembanyama’s Spurs moved the first few pawns.
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Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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At least 200 of those phones were allegedly sold at a pawn shop.
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Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Americans aren’t just shopping at pawn shops.
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Vanessa Yurkevich,
CNN Money,
18 Aug. 2025
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Our job is to educate those people about how they’re being pushed around like pawns.
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Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Grace’s Cafe is in a strip center with a liquor store, laundromat and pawn shop.
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Restaurant Critic,
Houston Chronicle,
6 May 2026
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Most people don’t think children should be pawns in any politician’s culture war.
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Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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Most people don’t think children should be pawns in any politician’s culture war.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Like, that is his reality and everyone else is just kind of a small pawn in it.
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
19 June 2026
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Dragging us along as pawns to keep the show going and money flowing into his pot?
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Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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For example, pawns could not move two squares on their first turn, and there was no similar rule for castling.
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Dylan Loeb McClain,
New York Times,
27 May 2023
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The property borders a pawn shop, some auto repair stores and a truck yard.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Mar. 2024
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And Asaf himself is little more than a pawn, refusing to step forth.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
27 Feb. 2024
- She was forced to pawn her diamond ring.
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Fishermen on the coasts had pawned their nets for money to buy maize.
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Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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At one point, the family pawned the title to their car to help keep his dream alive.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
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Others pawned jewelry to help pay their bills.
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Pap pawned Tedra's wedding ring to buy a freezer for the restaurant.
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Lester Fabian Brathwaite,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2023
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Manchester did steal a significant amount of video games from the store, and pawned them.
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Theoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Oct. 2025
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If a helmet is too outdated for your family to use, don't pawn it off on someone else.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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If a helmet is too outdated for your family to use, don't pawn it off on someone else.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Burglarizing the homes of those in his social circle and pawning the items just to stay afloat.
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Ryan Brennan
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Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
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During his time at his sister’s, Michael proactively tries to pawn the kids off on others.
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2024
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In lieu of a thank-you, Michael waits until his benefactor’s guard is down, assaults him, then steals his watch and pawns it.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
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He had been spotted in the Bronx early Tuesday trying to pawn a pair of cellphones.
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Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The same two witnesses now said Myers was the one who pawned the VCR for crack.
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Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected],
al,
26 Jan. 2023
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And that's exactly the problem—we're building systems that would never, ever pawn the ring.
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Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
22 Dec. 2025
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There were 46 items in the safe, some of which Kisakye allegedly pawned and sold to feed a substantial gambling habit.
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Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
3 June 2026
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But whoever stole it could neither ride it or pawn it off on anyone, so it was eventually recovered.
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Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
19 Mar. 2021
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Investigators also learned that a friend of Johnson's had pawned a handgun for him.
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William Morris,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Wrangling angry exes isn’t the most beloved task for some, which may be why the general civil judges pawn it off on their most junior colleague.
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Matt Sledge,
NOLA.com,
31 Dec. 2020
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Arthur then passes out face-first in a puddle and flips Barry a ring, telling him to pawn it off and use the money to get him another drink.
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Evan Romano,
Men's Health,
16 June 2023
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My heart isn't bleeding anymore for the single moms and the people with little kids who have to pawn everything to keep them from getting evicted.
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Anna Bahney,
CNN,
4 Aug. 2021
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Some were likely to pawn a fancy device like the medical grade watch MRG offered.
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Vianna Davila,
ProPublica,
25 Sep. 2020
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Police were able to collect the rings and obtain security footage of Garcia pawning them.
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Gabriella Ybarra,
San Antonio Express-News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Shortly after, the book was pawned to the Cistercian monks of the Sedlec Abbey in Bohemia.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Dec. 2025
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McGriff was last seen on video Tuesday wearing a black T-shirt, pawning two cellphones in the Bronx.
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Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
10 Sep. 2025
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In the summer of 2020, the comedian bought a brand-new Rolex, then pawned it at a steep discount to get some hands on some quick cash.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2023
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To help with their dissatisfaction from their day job as housekeepers at a hotel and to help pay the bills, the duo spend their weekends crashing wealthy weddings and stealing the gifts to pawn.
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Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
4 July 2025
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Wuornos pawned Carskaddon's gun, per court records reviewed by PEOPLE.
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Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Firms are also shirking responsibility for duties and seeking to pawn tariff costs off on suppliers.
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Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
22 May 2025
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To many of the nation’s outdoorsmen and women, disposing of federal land is seen as something akin to pawning a family heirloom to pay a bank overdraft.
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Chris Dorsey,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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After being blackballed from the finance sector, Coop resorts to burglarizing the homes of those in his social circle and pawning the items to stay afloat.
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Apr. 2026
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