How to Use baton in a Sentence

baton

noun

• The majorette twirled the baton.
• The piece shows a cop donning riot gear and holding a baton that has a flower sprouting from it.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2024
• Evans then allegedly turned the gun on the man, firing several shots as the victim attempted to swat away his gun with the baton.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
• The baton can be worn on the hip and expands in length.
  — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Powell, who struck most of the baton blows against King, and Sgt.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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 bash took place at a little sports bar — and of course, Zirbel's baton was there.
  — Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
• The man did not have a valid concealed carry permit for the baton.
  — Alexandra Faul, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• But Mosaku knows that passing the baton isn’t a clean getaway for Nicole.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 June 2022
• Police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
  — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• Netflix, on the other hand, took the movie streaming baton and ran with it.
  — Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• No business leader is better equipped than the CFO to take the podium and raise the baton.
  — Jim Deloach, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Drizzy laments an ex-lover while passing the baton to Tresor with tears in his eyes.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 June 2022
• Glizzock takes the baton and raps in the same cadence Thee Stallion led with.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2022
• To sort of pass the baton and watch this young generation coming up on the heels of Olivia is just the dream.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 27 July 2022
• In that case, the baton would be passed to the second-largest party to try to form a government.
  — Vanessa Gera, ajc, 10 Sep. 2022
• Dupree has not watched the video of his 29-year-old brother getting beaten with a baton and kicked in the head.
  — Nick Valencia, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
• In 2008, the baton was dropped during the exchange between Doc Patton and Tyson Gay in the heats.
  — Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Also ran a superb leg on the 4×100 relay, but the team later dropped the baton.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• When the strikers held their first march, on Feb. 23, the police attacked them with batons and mace.
  — Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024