How to Use token in a Sentence

token

1 of 2 noun
  • The in-house token of the Ethereum blockchain has gained 72% this year.
    Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • With the launch of the token, Worldcoin enters a new phase.
    Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 24 July 2023
  • The token is up 14% over the past 24 hours, riding the wave of the most recent rally.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Kids use a token given to them by the staff to select a book.
    Alecia Taylor, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Those tokens are then saved on Apple’s and Google’s servers, out of the users’ reach.
    Aaron Schaffer, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • By the same token, a loss in that game would all but erase the Celtics’ chances of securing the top seed.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And this old token from Poland may seem familiar to you.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The kit comes with an adorable plush Yeti, a hardcover book, a star pillow, and 33 tokens.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Get a token with each pint purchase, then vote for the charity of your choice.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024
  • And the tokens the chain uses for the arcade games that permeate the restaurant?
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Like the Wales window, the plaque is a gift from the people of wakes, a token of our enduring friendship.
    Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • By the same token, don't expect to go skiing in summer!
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Kids can play with several coin tokens that are dropped into the top of the machine.
    Korin Miller, wsj.com, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Additional taco and drink tokens will be sold at the event.
    Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The token’s value was set by the market value of the 10 percent that were traded on the open market.
    WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • And by the same token, to Leigh Ann's point, the rival campaigns are -- are almost to the point of resignation around this.
    ABC News, 23 July 2023
  • Binance’s own token has fallen almost 10% in the past 24 hours.
    WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Each taster also got a token to award to their favorite cornbread.
    Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But one old-school token of love—the qu’hier que demain pendant—is a much subtler option for the lovestruck.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2023
  • There is a vesting period of 180 days, after which the tokens can be traded.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • And, while expensive, these tokens can be bought in piecemeal, and the end result has a longevity that clothing doesn’t.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2023
  • At the end of another aisle was a plastic bag that contained a single subway token minted in the 1990s.
    Chelsia Rose Marcius Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Seven of his pitches were four-seam fastballs, four changeups and one token curve.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The more people who connect to the internet through that hotspot, the more Helium tokens the hotspot owner earns.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For all the tokens, coins, forks, chains and NFTs, bitcoin remains the gold standard in cryptocurrency.
    Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • One of the incentives offered to participants is the ability to earn a yield on tokens used to help the network run.
    Olga Kharif, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Among the pieces found were fragments of a flat board, which had a series of holes carved into it, as well as 25 ceramic tokens, researchers said.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Both buyers and sellers would have to use FIL tokens for transactions.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This auction does not feature ‘tokens’ of these friendships.
    Cydney Lee, Billboard, 22 June 2023
  • The coin’s initial supply is capped at 10 billion tokens, according to the project’s white paper.
    Time, 25 July 2023
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token

2 of 2 adjective
  • All the people who work there are men except for a couple of token women.
  • The ad campaign features a few token minorities.
  • The token launch could happen in the first half of 2023.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Most token prices are still less than half the record highs reached in late 2021.
    Olga Kharif, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • There would always be a token Asian who's with the cool kids.
    Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In a World Cup that has been defined by token gestures, this was the weakest of them all.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Dan Watman of Friends of Friendship Park called the change a token gesture.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • At the time of the announcement, the price of the token hovered just under $35; today, it is priced at under $2.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Vic had some token vegetable plants on the property, but the yard was not for survival.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The first play was a screen pass where the RB gave Will Anderson a token block and caught the ball after releasing.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Shortly after that, what was seen as the token woman’s slot among the staff’s eight writers opened, and Walters got the job.
    Frazier Moore, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The second-most-valuable token ether, which is on the Ethereum network, was up 17% over the same time period.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Or the Kyle Lowry and Chris Paul types get past some token outside pressure and live in the midrange, before the lurking bigs have engaged.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
  • How much each token is worth varies based on the current market value.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Other Suns brought the ball up the court, often against only token pressure.
    Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Ringgold was not about to be a token ornament to naïve idealisms.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The recipe is often the same: some token government support, some tax incentives, and a lot of PR.
    Angelica Mari, WIRED, 30 June 2023
  • The hard truth, as some commentators note, is that Biden can't do much more than make token gestures.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 13 July 2022
  • For up-to-date hours, daily drink and token specials, a complete list of arcade games and more, visit updownarcadebar.com/milwaukee.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2023
  • Then again, women were barely allowed to be more than token side acts to begin with.
    Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Shortly afterward, what was seen as the token woman’s slot among the staff’s eight writers opened.
    Frazier Moore, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Web3 projects are usually financed through token sales open to the public.
    Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022
  • There are now around two hundred and eighty token holders able to vote on Cabin’s future.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The aim was to create a realistic flow to the bilingual dialogue, not the token Spanglish heard in some movies and TV shows.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The first 50 customers at the grand opening will receive a free scoop token, redeemable during their next visit.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Madonna is now the latest megawatt celebrity to enter the non-fungible token game.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2022
  • The report offers a token mea culpa for not having responded fast enough to troubles at the bank.
    The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Farah Griffin is also the token Republican among the hosts.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
  • Rochelle isn’t just a token Black friend thrown in for representation.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The Americans offered only token military help, on the assumption that Ukraine would fall within days or weeks.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024

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