Sentence examples for baton- from inspiring English sources
One guy, sweaty and breathless, with his helmet tucked under his arm, was swishing his baton through the air, re-enacting his best shots.
The left-armer Keith Barker completed a five-wicket haul in the first innings and then passed the baton to the international trio Chris Woakes, Rankin and Jeetan Patel, their leading wicket-taker who wrapped things up with wickets in consecutive overs, in the second.
Charlotte Higgins is right to highlight the fact that building a new concert hall in London is shortsighted unless the issue of music education and access to the arts is addressed at the same time (Simon Rattle is waving his baton at the wrong cause, 23 February).
Born in New Jersey but an honorary Londoner since 2003, when he became artistic director of the Old Vic theatre, Spacey will pass that baton to successor Matthew Warchus in autumn 2015, but not before releasing a new documentary.
He said he had contemplated using a baton or CS gas but decided that that was not an option.
The good news for the NHS – and this should inspire every one of us – is that once staff do become engaged, there is evidence that they are both willing and able to pick up and run with the baton of responsibility.
In 2002, he spoke and voted in the House of Lords against the dismantling of the Royal Ulster Constabulary - the force which had baton-charged him in 1968 - and its replacement, in a bid to win Catholic support, with the police service of Northern Ireland.
The crowds were dispersed by baton-wielding riot police, leaving several protesters bloodied.
This pass-the-baton pattern has been repeated over the past decade.Newspapers are full of financial woes these days, and there are doubtless more to come.
Foreign television channels captured images of riot police baton-charging demonstrators.
The same month, Chen Ping, publisher of iSun Affairs, a weekly known for covering sensitive mainland issues, was beaten by a group of baton-wielding men.
