How to Use pawnshop in a Sentence
pawnshop
noun-
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 -
Lewisville police have identified two suspects who remain at large following the fatal shooting of a pawnshop owner on Valentine’s Day.
— From Staff Reports, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
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