How to Use pawnshop in a Sentence

pawnshop

noun

• One suspicious account, though, kept slipping through his fingers: a century-old pawnshop in Philadelphia.
  — Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
• Use the kid to crawl through the window of a liquor store or a pawnshop.
  — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• Albert Isom bought a pistol at a pawnshop and shot himself in the head in front of the clerk.
  — Katherine Mooney, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
• Albert Isom bought a pistol at a pawnshop and shot himself in the head in front of the clerk.
  — Katherine Mooney, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
• The quaint diner that figured in the 1974 story line is now a quaint pawnshop.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• There were 40-cal Glocks, 9 mms, shotguns in that damn pawnshop.
  — Alain Stephens, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• Many wound up on the open market, sold on street corners or hocked in pawnshops.
  — Joni Sternbach, Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• Grocery stores and pawnshops lined its streets, along with theaters, cafes and bars that spilled out jazz and blues.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• A few days later, William drove to a pawnshop and purchased a handgun.
  — Ann Neumann, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The couple were forced into the trunk of their car and driven around to a pawnshop and several A.T.M.s.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
• If word has reached the pawnshops, then everybody knows.
  — Houston Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
• Dave’s birthday gift the next year was a rusty, warped bamboo fly rod and reel that his father had bought in a pawnshop.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• Most used Apple products were just dropped off at a pawnshop so they could be resold.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 28 May 2017
• The number belonged to A-Hady, and the address was for a storefront for a pawnshop, officials said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2019
• The guns stolen from the pawnshop included: two Smith & Wesson 9mm handguns, a Glock .
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• After that, the poor man gets by, barely, as a tinkerer with a pawnshop.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• He was found outside a friend's pawnshop after visiting the store to check on an alarm.
  — Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2020
• The laptop that got lifted from a New York apartment, found its way to a local pawnshop, and then got re-sold on eBay.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2018
• The pawnshop dealer offered $180 for both pairs of earrings.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• Dorn, who spent more than three decades with the city police department, was shot and killed outside a pawnshop in the city, which is owned by a friend, last week.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 7 June 2020
• An officer is killed at a pawnshop along with the store’s owner, and the team tries to figure out why a recent college dropout is tied to the crime.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• Evan Kail, the pawnshop owner and TikTok creator who posted about the photos last week, said a client brought him the album to sell.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2022
• One guitar found in a Philadelphia pawnshop has two necks on each side of its body.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
• The atmosphere at the directorate is more sterile than a U.S. gun store or pawnshop.
  — Kate Linthicum, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• Authorities were able to find the gun was initially sold at a Wylie pawnshop in 2013.
  — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Dorn was a personal friend of the owner of a pawnshop that was being vandalized, his wife said.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 3 June 2020
• On the main drag of St. Paul Street there are some empty storefronts, pawnshops and payday loaners, vape stores and an old shoe repair shop.
  — Noah Kaufman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2020
• Napier is the only one of the three people involved in the pawnshop burglary who has been arrested.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The pawnshop, Cash City, at 1300 Randolph, which Stone also is selling, is closing, too.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2018
• Tens of millions of dollars worth from pawnshops — rings, necklaces and watches.
  — Jay Weaver and Nicholas Nehamas, miamiherald, 16 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024