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
  • 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
  • Each one of us is Franca curating a pawnshop of the mind.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • 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
  • There were 40-cal Glocks, 9 mms, shotguns in that damn pawnshop.
    — Alain Stephens, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
  • After that, the poor man gets by, barely, as a tinkerer with a pawnshop.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tens of millions of dollars worth from pawnshops — rings, necklaces and watches.
    — Jay Weaver and Nicholas Nehamas, miamiherald, 16 Jan. 2018
  • 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 quaint diner that figured in the 1974 story line is now a quaint pawnshop.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Months later in December, trucks pulled up outside the pawnshop.
    — Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • A couple of resourceful misfits runs the biggest pawnshop in Poland.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • This information could help authorities track your phone down down in a pawnshop, on eBay, or even in a bust.
    — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2018
  • As smoke billowed out of the pawnshop, bystanders tried in vain to rip down the plywood panels and reach faint voices calling for help inside.
    — Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 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
  • Authorities were able to find the gun was initially sold at a Wylie pawnshop in 2013.
    — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Reacher notices the class ring of a fellow West Point grad in a small-town Wisconsin pawnshop window.
    — Richard Lipez, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Some families feeling the economic pinch are selling jewelry at pawnshops.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Maduro needs to keep paying the salaries of the Venezuelan security forces battling protesters, and the only way to do that is to keep going back to the pawnshop.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 8 June 2017
  • Dorn, 77, was shot and killed on June 2 when looters broke into a pawnshop during protests following George Floyd’s death.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 15 June 2020
  • Investigators had been tracking her for weeks, connecting her to several missing men and pawnshop items belonging to the victims.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • They have been stolen and lost, stolen and found, have turned up in a Pasadena flea market, a San Francisco pawnshop, and a Hollywood garage sale.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The pawnshop, Cash City, at 1300 Randolph, which Stone also is selling, is closing, too.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2018

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