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How to use Pawned in a sentence

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He took to farming in his own garden but a little later that year, everything they owned had to be pawned when the orange blossoms failed.
My mother pawned her jewellery to make ends meet and my father went into clinical depression for four years, having lost everything.
I can remember once she told me how she pawned a wedding ring so she could afford to feed a cat in her care.
After spending six months dancing in the United States, she returned in 1991 and pawned her jewellery to raise start-up cash.
A thief pawned a gold ring then snatched it back along with the cash he was being paid for it.
The federal government pawned this responsibility off to the municipalities.
And, thankfully, at least some of the forms can be pawned off on someone else.
Both boys are pawned off on grandmothers, who will die early and represent the only selfless love either child will know.
An agricultural chemical dealer in the Hingurakgoda area had about 600 small tractors and tractor rotaries, all of which had been pawned.
Chigi was money-lender to Pope Julius II, who once pawned his papal tiara to him.
The foundation alms had been pilfered and church ornaments and vestments pawned to pay the hospital's debts.
Sources said the man purchased a ring at the jewelry store sometime ago, but pawned it at another branch soon afterwards.
Well, he was watching the space where the television would have been if I hadn't pawned it on Saturday to help pay the rent.
I loved her, really, but I needed to pay for a late payment on my car insurance so I pawned her diamond necklace.
I've killed one of their flunkies before and pawned off the ring.
But further back there was an earl, and the family had a heraldic crest and some silver, bits of which Orwell pawned to raise money to fight in Spain.
Women pawned their husbands suits every week just to get money for food.
Those attempting to get loans just have to show the goods to be pawned to an officer, who would spend a little time to appraise the estimated value of the items.
Matt and Meredith had pawned her off on Natalie Morales and the segment had run short.
With Into the Wild, I pawned off that decision on the McCandless family.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He wouldn't, but said he'd placed a lot of pawned things with pash, and I could have them.
Lastly the pawner is liable for any deficiency after the sale of the thing pawned, unless released by statute.
I had pawned my last winter's furs, but my character seemed quite clean and unsmirched.
He sat up and groped for his watch, then remembered he had pawned it after the poker game.
These poor creatures at frome have pawned all their things, or nearly all.
He owes me seven pounds at the moment, and he pawned his microscope last week, because he was so broke.
Hadn't a stiver left one night, but I pawned my grandfather's Louis xiv.
Thrice at a crisis I pawned my watch, and thrice I rallied and rescued it.
In half an hour my watch was pawned, and the affair concluded.
The volume had undoubtedly been stolen, and pawned by the thief.
He pawned a snake-shaped ring, and they identified this Walenn by it.
She pawned them on these first two occasions I've described.
I say she pawned them, but I never had definite proof of it.
Whereupon John went forth, and pawned his gold watch under the assumed name of John Froggs, 85 Pleasance.
The trouble with the beginner at the writing game is the long, dry spells, when there is never an editor's cheque and everything pawnable is pawned.
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