Example sentences for: pawn

How can you use “pawn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A rebuff to President Clinton by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdallah at the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan last week was heralded in the Saudi press Thursday as evidence that the country wasn't a pawn or a puppet of the United States.

  • Its spin-off industries, prostitution and pawn shops, also thrive.

  • Turki al-Hamad, another commentator in the same paper, said that the Amman incident confounded those who believed that Saudi Arabia was just another pawn on Washington's chessboard and therefore had probably already established secret links with Israel.

  • Afterwards they might venture out to the Boulingrin or, if he needed ready money quickly, to pawn some possessions at the Pingbros.

  • They show me all the evidence of gambling blight you'd never want to see, from a youth-center-turned-crack-house to pawn shops to sex shops to down at heels casinos to quickie motels.


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