How to Use baton in a Sentence

baton

noun

• The majorette twirled the baton.
• Everyone likes to try to pass the baton and pass the buck.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Staff then stopped the beating using pepper spray and a baton strike.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2024
• The blue crosshair sector dial has silver baton hour markers and tachymeter scale.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• Buehler will get the opening day start, officially taking the baton from Kershaw as the staff ace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Nichols, who was Black, died in a hospital three days after he was kicked, punched and hit with a police baton during the traffic stop.
  — Rebecca Byrd, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• On top of scoring and arranging the whole show, Davide took the baton in his own hand and conducted the orchestra himself.
  — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• The contact soon devolved into violence, with Stangel striking Spiers as many as eight times with his baton and breaking his wrist and leg.
  — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022
• The officer Rivera is accused of assaulting struck him twice on the leg with a baton, but Rivera continued to flee, the report stated.
  — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Oct. 2024
• Graphic video footage from the traffic stop showed officers attacking Nichols using pepper spray, a Taser, and a baton while also punching and kicking him.
  — Lucas Finton, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024