Sentence examples for straight baton from inspiring English sources

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The straight baton was developed in the mid-20th century.

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ROSCOE C. BROWN JR., 85, stood drill-baton straight addressing the audience after the first performance of "Fly," a new play about the all-black Army Air Corps fighter squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

In that technique, incoming runners literally push the baton forward, straight out in front of them and into the outgoing runner's outstretched hand.

When Mr Morieux talked to members of a French Olympic medal-winning women's relay team, he was told that at some point you have to decide whether to run your guts out and literally not be able to see straight when you pass the baton; or whether to hold something back to make a better baton-change and enable your team-mate to run a faster time.

— Thomas Aquinas Daly, wielding a slender stick as straight as a conductor's baton, pointed out a bright droplet of blood splashed across a yellow maple leaf.

Whatever its position (holding a baton or mace, straight by your side, or bent) make sure that is deliberate and firm, not dangling absently.

One by one, peel each salsify root, cut into 4cm x 1cm batons and drop straight into the lemon water to prevent discolouring.

Nonlethal weapons include electronic devices, chemical agents, and a variety of different striking instruments, such as straight, side-handle, and collapsible batons and an array of saps, truncheons, and clubs.

It can't be anything real existing in the baton itself, since the baton is straight.

One of the marchers I noticed had grown tired or was stoned and had sat down next to a sidewalk light pole and was facing the street when a cop came out of a building and walked straight toward him as he pulled out his baton.

It had been 15 years and one day since the United States set the world record time of 37.40sec that Jamaica destroyed as Powell, collecting the baton from Bolt, stormed down the home straight to bring the team home in 37.10.

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