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Meanings of pawn in inglês
Piece in standard shogi; moves one square straight forward; can promote to a promoted pawn.
Related terms
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peão Synonyms
Examples for "soak"
Examples for "soak"
1
We wake in the early morning and soak the floor with water.
2
Crush the toast in your hands, and soak it in the milk.
3
Let the shrimp soak for 30 minutes, then drain and coarsely chop.
4
The Gold Coast is a good option to soak up some sunshine.
5
Time for a long soak in the bath, then change for dinner.
1
John had gone to get more wine, a home-made hock this time.
2
A very large tendon is attached to the summit of the hock.
3
I was getting some of that hock her ladyship brought from London.
4
These are placed above the hock and retained by straps tightly fastened.
5
Seaman took a long and ecstatic draught of his hock and seltzer.
Usage of pawn in inglês
1
He also took issue with Derek being used as a political pawn.
2
In addition, a pawn transaction takes a matter of minutes, he noted.
3
Don't try to pawn us off on the New England Patriots, either.
4
Passing a line of broken prams, great for transport to the pawn.
5
Hence, the solution can never be the 'pawn' known as estimated bill.
6
The commissioners still held Cézar Galbaud-thishostage was their best negotiating pawn.
7
Now as ever the woman is but a pawn in the game.
8
He was a pawn in the hands of firm-partners and assorted secretaries.
9
She felt briefly sorry for Aline, a pawn in a complex game.
10
When they need the money they just pawn or sell their jewellery.
11
You feel yourself and your branch stores a pawn in the game.
12
At the time, Jones was widely dismissed as a gold-digging political pawn.
13
Some of the emeralds had been discovered in a Third Avenue pawn-shop.
14
The company has pawn stores across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
15
And he needed her as a pawn to trade away for Ali.
16
You can't just undo years of being trained to be a pawn.
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Pawn through the time
Pawn across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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