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Example sentences for "pawned"

Lexicographically close words:
pawn; pawnbroker; pawnbrokers; pawnbroking; pawne; pawning; pawns; pawnshop; pawnshops; pawpaw
  1. That you have pawned the goods which you took up at their houses.

  2. Lem ain't pawned to me any more; he's pawned to Mr. Alberson.

  3. So if you want to unpawn him an' git him pawned to you, I ain't got no objections.

  4. Did you find out who it was that pawned that diamond at Davis's?

  5. Now, if he is only fortunate enough to obtain those diamonds, and discover who it was that pawned one at Davis's shop, my innocence will be proved, and the guilty party punished.

  6. I am glad you are come back again; we were afraid you had been pawned for the reckoning.

  7. He says true," said the commissary; "for he himself has written his own history as well as heart could wish, and has left the book in prison pawned for two hundred reals.

  8. The sale of pawned goods is usually regulated by statute.

  9. Subject to the pawnee's claim, the pawner has the same right over the article pawned as he had after pawning it, and may therefore sell and transfer his interest as before.

  10. Nor has the pawnee the right to retain possession against the true owner of any article that has been pawned without his consent or authority.

  11. However this may be, it is certainly a fact that in 1800 Napoleon, then First Consul, pawned the Regent to the Berlin banker Trescow.

  12. A] Evidently a mistake on Baba's part, as the Regent was pawned to a banker in Berlin.

  13. Instead of paying, he pawned the stone, and the defrauded Prince sued him, won his case, and got back the diamond.

  14. She got her living by begging, and got lots of things given her, but pawned them for drink.

  15. She squandered her fortune, pawned her jewels, sank lower and lower in the gambling mire, gave herself up more and more unreservedly to her absorbing passion.

  16. LII THE POPE had sent me all those precious stones, except the diamond, which was pawned to certain Genoese bankers for some pressing need he had of money.

  17. He had pawned those solemn pledges, and pawned them again and again; but when had he redeemed them?

  18. He sold his hat, he pawned his coat, To pay the browns, we find, And then he run round Hyde Park sqre, With his shirt hanging out behind.

  19. There was a fellow in my class at college who pawned his pawn ticket to get money to pay his laundress, and then gave the new ticket to a poor blind man.

  20. I pawned my watch once when I was in college and Billings--he was my guardian--had shut me off.

  21. The ring was pawned with him, a personal matter, the morning after the theft, for the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars.

  22. Garraboy, you stole that ring, pawned it, and raised the money to hold off your loans.

  23. I could quote you an appropriate passage from the tippler of Teos, and in the original Greek, if I had not long ago pawned my copy of Anacreon (Barnes, 12 mo.

  24. He has stolen everything I possessed, sold everything, pawned everything; he has left me nothing--nothing!

  25. He possessed, it was said, a set of false teeth, and one day when he wanted money for a drinking orgy, he pawned them, and was never able to reclaim them!

  26. One day, he pawned his meagre jewelry for all he could obtain thereon, which amounted to only a dollar and a half.

  27. When Legs had pawned and lost about all he possessed, he happened upon a job at one of the hotels, and went to work.

  28. This guinea was a very seasonable relief to us, who were reduced to great necessity, six of my shirts, and almost all my clothes, except those on my back, having been either pawned or sold for our maintenance before this happened.

  29. As I hope for mercy, I am half-persuaded that this slip-halter has pawned my clothes.

  30. Secret tells me, 'twas your poet too that pawned me to-day in the tavern.

  31. Tom reads Virgil and Horace when he should be casting accounts; and but t'other day he pawned his great-coat for an edition of Shakespeare.

  32. She had pawned the goods of the house, at one time a piece of silver with a cover and a maser worth 40s.

  33. They now pawned the plate they had obtained by fraud in Vienna.

  34. Very commonly in Africa wives are pawned or even mortgaged, and they are devolved upon the husband's heirs as a part of the inheritance.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.