Sentence examples for pawn from inspiring English sources

The word "pawn" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as either a noun or a verb. Noun: The pawn shop had many rare items. Verb: He was forced to pawn his watch to pay for food.

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pawn

verb

To pledge; to stake or wager.

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White threatens to take on b5, winning another pawn and at the same time liberating knight and bishop, so Black's first move looks obvious: 1…b4, exploiting the pin on the long diagonal and threatening to capture on c3.

If 2 gxf5 Black Black has developed the queen's bishop to a good square, opened the f-file for imminent use by the rooks and has the better pawn structure.

She explained that her music career began when she bought a guitar from a pawn shop in Milwaukee as a teen.

At first sight surely desperation; the black king simply goes 1…Kg4 and gobbles up the pawn on the next turn.

They only need to visit the towns that have been abandoned by industry, walk the high streets where local businesses have been replaced by bookies and pawn shops, or wave off their children who are moving elsewhere to find work.

Instead, the moment Nick Clegg realised things were changing, that he was suddenly in prime position on the chessboard and morphing fast from pawn into knight, was more a series of moments.

Four weeks later, Jamie returns to his star pupil's house to find Kya dining on cheese-chips again and Natasha knackered and ashamed, missing her gold rings which are in the pawn shop to keep the electric on.

But ideally I would want to break up the pawn front to nullify any attacking threat, no matter how remote.

But among the political sins that Santorum has committed are these, according to Erickson: Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.

DK I like Black's active pieces, but White is a pawn up so it would be good to get something more tangible than vague "activity" as compensation.

There is little dignity in regularly going hungry to feed your children, telling crying two-year-olds to put coats on in bed or being in such a bind that you pawn a dead parent's wedding ring just to keep a roof over your head.

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