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Examples of pawnshop in a Sentence
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Months later in December, trucks pulled up outside the pawnshop.
—Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
The retired repairman knew the pawnshop clerk by name.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
Uses for the property are open, but Turim noted the city isn't interested in pawnshops, vape shops, gun stores or liquor stores.
—Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
One suspicious account, though, kept slipping through his fingers: a century-old pawnshop in Philadelphia.
—Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
Once-thriving American factory towns sank into joblessness and despair, swapping restaurants and hardware stores for food banks and pawnshops.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
After that, the poor man gets by, barely, as a tinkerer with a pawnshop.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
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
The only businesses doing well were pawnshops, residents said.
—Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
First Known Use
1749, in the meaning defined above
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“Pawnshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pawnshop. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
pawnshop
noun
pawn·shop
ˈpȯn-ˌshäp
ˈpän-
: a pawnbroker's shop
Legal Definition
pawnshop
noun
pawn·shop
: a pawnbroker's shop
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