How to Use baton in a Sentence

baton

noun
  • The majorette twirled the baton.
  • The baton can be worn on the hip and expands in length.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Yi says the woman then hit her on the head with the baton.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • With that, Howard took out his steel baton and smashed the glass pane on the door.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The guard used her baton to push the towel out of the way and stared at Griner’s chest.
    — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Mills is standing to the right of the group and drawing his baton.
    — Robin Stein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But by her side through it all—and ready to pick up the baton—was Shar Dubey.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The candidate who takes up the baton must prove to be the best.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • Everyone likes to try to pass the baton and pass the buck.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The officer struck the boy in the head with a baton, the complaint said.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Powell, who struck most of the baton blows against King, and Sgt.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The Joule is a slim cylinder about the size of a relay baton.
    — Brad Leone, Bon Appétit, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Now Walker Buehler will look to take the baton and run with it.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 11 June 2025
  • An officer hit her across the back of the neck with a baton.
    — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
  • This year marked a shift as the leadership baton was passed to the youth in San Jose.
    — Shae Hammond, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • To fail now would be to drop the baton just before the final straight.
    — Alex Riley, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The defense and grit is DNA deep in the program and a given as the baton is passed.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Ditch the whip and pick up the baton; lead by example, not by fear.
    — Chris Kille, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Barker got the baton for the anchor leg in fourth place.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 4 June 2022
  • Gavin Stone took the baton and did his part to keep the streak going Tuesday.
    — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024
  • The virus was being passed on like a baton in a relay race.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • To address this, Wall Street banks are stepping in to pick up the baton.
    — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Television has picked up the baton from the film world in at least one way.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The bash took place at a little sports bar — and of course, Zirbel's baton was there.
    — Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The 35-year-old Felix passed not only the baton, but the torch to younger women.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Video footage appears to show Bologna hitting the student in the head and neck with a baton.
    — NBC News, 5 June 2020
  • That sprint is now a relay race — and a biotech lab on the southern coast of England has the baton.
    — CBS News, 24 Aug. 2020
  • What did that next passing of the baton look like when it would inevitably get passed to me?
    — Sara Kehaulani Goo, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
  • Rain or shine, Grant Park is looking like a fair place to be under his baton.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
  • His wife claimed Walls-Kaufman inflicted a head injury upon her husband that led to his suicide by striking the cop with his own police baton.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025

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