PAWN in a Sentence

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For PAWN, below is one of 13 sentences:
In the first two films, Katniss was a pawn of Panem's dastardly, white-bearded President Snow (Donald Sutherland, forever sneering).

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 Meanings and Examples of PAWN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pawn
 n.  something given as security for loan; pledge or guaranty; article deposited as security
Classic Sentence:
1  "We'll try to," replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing his hand.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
2  As to the washerwoman pawning the clothes, and coming in a state of penitent intoxication to apologize, I suppose that might have happened several times to anybody.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
3  He had done for himself in the office, pawned his watch, spent all his money; and he had not even got drunk.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
4  He had set up house for her six times; and each time she had pawned the furniture on him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
5  The woman took Cosette's outfit to Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
6  For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
7  I'll sit here and drink, for I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
Example Sentence:
1  China's earliest pawn shops were run by Buddhist monasteries; in recent decades monks are keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.
2  In the first two films, Katniss was a pawn of Panem's dastardly, white-bearded President Snow (Donald Sutherland, forever sneering).
3  When he answered, he told her recklessly that he had not been to see her because his best clothes were in pawn.
4  Of all items pawned, jewellery is the most common.
5  They became pawns in the political battle.
6  We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.