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pawned example sentences
pawned
1. He pawned his fine clothes, sold his gold wristwatch and hocked his patent leather shoes, until he had nothing left but his old army clothes
2. It’s even been pawned on occasion, our diamond engagement ring, but its only glass and nine carat gold
3. Nevertheless, my mind was all white and pawned in retaining its valued findings, if there was any, I did not understand it!
4. To buy more drugs, he pawned his instruments and in the early 1960s spent prison time in Italy
5. but not limited to articles to be pawned
6. He chose not to disclose the information that he had been pawned off on Sarek by Spock because Spock had not wanted him
7. Her first thought was that he must have gotten his hands on one of the rings that Visola pawned
8. Pawned it for some cash
9. " She had pawned enough jewelry and paintings so that she could have moved into a beautiful apartment, but Kate would have learned of it and would have demanded to know where the money had come from
10. That afternoon she pawned an emerald bracelet she had been given a week earlier by an infatuated insurance executive with a wife and three children, and bought some new summer outfits at Lord & Taylor and a round-trip ticket to Nassau
11. The idea of parents spending time with children is pawned off to baby sitters, and nannies, and schools, and extra curricular activities, and TV, and movies, and computers, and shopping
12. Six weeks ago he had remembered the address; he had two articles that could be pawned: his father's old silver watch and a little gold ring with three red stones, a present from his sister at parting
13. He killed an old woman, a pawnbroker, with whom he had pawned things himself
14. "'I sought for a service again--very hard, after having a house of my own!--but he used to follow me, and kick up such a riot when he was drunk, that I could not keep a place; nay, he even stole my clothes, and pawned them; and when I went
15. He walked the streets day after day; pawned or sold all his clothes save those he stood in, and stayed in London for six months, sometimes starving and only occasionally obtaining a few days or weeks work
16. He was without an overcoat, it was pawned in London, and he had not yet been able to redeem it
17. Both Easton and Ruth - whose best clothes had all been pawned to raise the money to pay the poor rate - felt very mean and shabby before them
18. He had done for himself in the office, pawned his watch, spent all his money; and he had not even got drunk
19. Nearly everything of any value had been parted with for the same reason - the furniture, the pictures, the bedclothes, the carpet and the oilcloth, piece by piece, nearly everything that had once constituted the home - had been either pawned or sold to buy food or to pay rent during the times when Newman was out of work - periods that had recurred during the last few years with constantly increasing frequency and duration
20. They secretly sold or pawned their clothing and their furniture and lived in semi-
21. ‘How dare he say I had his breeches stolen! Pawned them for drink, I expect
22. “Believe me if it had been worth anything, I’d have pawned it already
23. The woman took Cosette's outfit to Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs
24. " For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora
25. Tránsito Ariza knew that world, although this was the only time it caused her suffering in her own person, and she knew that her clients always reappeared on the eve of great parties to ask her please to dig down into her jars and lend them their pawned jewels for only twenty-four hours in exchange for the payment of additional interest
26. I began taking our clothes one by one to the pawnbroker's ; we have been living on what we have pawned
27. In this way the fact was established that three or four hours before a certain event, of which I shall speak later on, Mitya had not a farthing, and pawned for ten roubles a possession he valued, though, three hours later, he was in possession of thousands
28. “Would you believe,” said the mistress of the house, suddenly addressing the prince, “would you believe that that man has not even spared my orphan children? He has stolen everything I possessed, sold everything, pawned everything; he has left me nothing—nothing! What am I to do with your IOU’s, you cunning, unscrupulous rogue? Answer, devourer! answer, heart of stone! How shall I feed my orphans? with what shall I nourish them? And now he has come, he is drunk! He can scarcely stand
29. 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! The officer appeared to be a rival of the gentleman who was so proud of his fists
30. In a word he had been driven about from office to office for five months and had spent every farthing he had; his wife’s last rags had just been pawned; and meanwhile a child had been born to them and—and today I have a final refusal to my petition, and I have hardly a crumb of bread left—I have nothing left; my wife has had a baby lately—and I—I—’
31. Many middle-class people, as it appeared afterwards, had pawned everything they had for that day, even the family linen, even the sheets, and possibly the mattresses, to the Jews, who had been settling in our town in great numbers during the previous two years and who became more and more numerous as time went on
32. "Indeed, it is time now to have warm clothing, dear man! But yesterday I pawned my last kerchief for twenty kopeks
33. Well, and what do you think, friend? I went and pawned the linen she herself had woven, and gave him the money
