Sentence examples for was token from inspiring English sources
noun
Something serving as an expression of something else; sign, symbol
- According to the Bible, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant with Noah.
A recent civil-service pay freeze was token at best.
It was token rebellionagainst the forces that threatened a Saturday night party.
There was token talk of releasing selected documents, but no significant moves on issues such as allowing the public to attend WTO judicial hearings on trade disputes or admitting comments from lobby groups to such proceedings.
Had Mikael Forssell been fit Hasselbaink would never have been risked and, as it was, he became so restricted in his movements that any danger he posed to Tony Adams or Sol Campbell was token.
Leah Borromeo, a journalist, film-maker and artist who worked with the Space Hijackers and received one of the payouts from the City of London force, said: "The settlement was token and their apology a non-apology.
"That first money must just be token money.
Most of it is token gestures by developers in return for erecting bigger, taller buildings.
Such calls have been heard before, but most changes have been token.
