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Example sentences for: pawn

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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.
Russia and China called U.N. weapons inspection chief Richard Butler an American pawn and demanded his resignation, but nobody seems angry enough about the attack to make a serious effort to stop it.
Critics portray Putin as Yeltsin's pawn, installed by Yeltsin's daughter and other cronies to safeguard their financial interests and shield them from prosecution for corruption.
But in a news report, the SCMP quoted several Hong Kong opposition leaders as attacking China for using Wang Dan as a pawn in Sino-American relations.
My search for Slates, apparently an act of free will, was but a pawn's move in the great game of advertising played by casually superior types on Madison Avenue and in Hollywood (and in Redmond, Wash.