Preposition: on

• chessboard: They can be merely cash-cows to local authorities and pawns on the chessboard of traffic management to planners.

Adjective modifier

• unwitting: Throughout time, man has been an unwitting pawn in the battle waged between heaven and hell.

• unwilling: The island of Melos found itself an unwilling pawn in a vicious struggle between the Athenian and Spartan alliances.

• mere: They fail to realize to what extent they are mere pawns in the game.

• political: The disabled person gets stuck in the middle like some kind of political pawn.

• white: As in my case, where the white pawn attacks me from behind.

Converse of object

• become: No-one should ever become a pawn in our ' game of life ' .

• pass: Still suffering from less space and faced with a central passed pawn tho he could not really mount a serious winning challenge.

• win: In round 9, I won a pawn against the fifteen year-old Indian girl, only to blunder it back.

• take: It is like they are playing a chess game but have had all their pawns taken away before they start.

• have: They played on, but with Kevin now having a pawn for the exchange, the game was soon drawn.

Modifies a noun

• broker: This allows you to hand write in the pawn broker 's entries.

• shop: We also regrettably have two pawn shops, which is a worrying sign of the times.

• ticket: A soldier's blouse, with sergeant ' stripes, plus blood stains was found together with a pawn ticket for a Rolex watch.

• structure: Learn the key techniques and classic moves of the Chess Master, including basic and advanced tactics, combinations, sacrifices and pawn structures.

Preposition: in

• game: She was herself a kind of toy, a pawn in a chess game.

• struggle: Profit sharing in Iran became a pawn in a political struggle, involving riots, bloodshed, international intrigue.

• battle: Children are also prone to becoming pawns in battles surrounding the ending of a marriage.

• hand: In my mind's eye, I decided to hold one pawn in each hand.

Preposition: of

• landlord: Periods of or pawn of a landlord over the holidays.