Example sentences for: pawn

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

  • 24. moskeneer--a mosker sells or pawns things at pawn shops for more than their true value, frequently with a story of need or some other fraudulent con.

  • Bennett told reporters that the decision spoke for itself, and James Carville brushed aside Jones as a pawn of larger, darker forces.

  • Conservatives counter Salon 's posited right-wing conspiracy by charging that the Webzine is a pawn in a conspiracy by the left.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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