pawnbroker

How To Use pawnbroker In A Sentence

• He said that the credit union had seen an end of the loan shark and the pawnbroker, who for far too long, had gripped people in poverty.
• And pawnbrokers, those eager harbingers of depression, are on the rebound.
• There were 47 pawnbrokers in the Borough, 38 of whom dealt in gold and silver plate, and 55 persons carried on business as watchmakers.
• Unable to get cheap credit on the high street, some of these people fall into the hands of pawnbrokers, impaired credit lenders and loan sharks.
• While the typical cost of paying off a £100 loan over 12 months was £112 if taken from a credit union, this rose to £142 for a pawnbroker and £173 for a rent-to-own loan. Poorer families 'paying double by renting household goods'
• The pawnbroker in turn resold the gold to a foundry, where it was recycled.
• In the opening lines, the reader is thrust straight into the clammy, dark, bitter atmosphere of a pawnbroker's on Christmas Day, run by a man who immediately admits that he is no angel.
• Caesar than those in the antique shops and the pawnbrokers ', but which drew learned commentaries from the German. Caesar or Nothing
• The beadle is the only sober man in the composition except the pawnbroker, and he is mightily indifferent to the orphan-child crying beside its parent's coffin. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
• At 4.30 they're outside a pawnbroker's, looking at rings. Times, Sunday Times