BATON in a Sentence
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Example sentences for BATON, such as:
1. They were driven back by a police baton charge.
2. What's the textbook way to handoff the baton in the relays?
3. The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.
2. What's the textbook way to handoff the baton in the relays?
3. The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.
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Meanings and Examples of BATON
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baton
n. a short stout club used primarily by policemen
n. a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
Classic Sentence:
1 The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.
2 He had in one hand a lighted torch, or link, and in the other a baton of crab-tree, so thick and heavy, that it might well be termed a club.
3 Ah, sir," said the man with the ivory baton, "had you committed all the imaginable crimes you would be to me the most honest man in the world.
Example Sentence:
1 The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.
2 They were driven back by a police baton charge.
3 What's the textbook way to handoff the baton in the relays?