How to Use pawn off in a Sentence
pawn off
verb-
Cheating is pawning off somebody else’s work as your own.
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Charlie Dektar,
New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2026
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No one is immune to the lampooning, even the dazed and confused sons and daughters who get sidelined and pawned off due to their parents’ ambitions, neuroses and desires to achieve greatness.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
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They're not being coached by scumbag parents like at ballparks where the dads pawn off their kids to stand along a rail in order for dad to add to HIS collection.
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Joe Kinsey Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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Police reportedly searched through records of precious metal sales in the county and eventually discovered that Weckesser pawned off the ring at a shop in Mechanicsburg, Penn.
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Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
26 June 2026
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In 1847, Henri-Clément Sanson, who preferred gambling to guillotining, pawned off the family apparatus.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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