BATON in a Sentence

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1. They were driven back by a police baton charge.
2. What's the textbook way to handoff the baton in the relays?
3. The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.

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 Meanings and Examples of BATON
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baton
 n.  a staff or truncheon, used for various purposes, as one of a conductor in musical performances, one transferred by runners in a relay race
Classic Sentence:
1  The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
2  He had in one hand a lighted torch, or link, and in the other a baton of crab-tree, so thick and heavy, that it might well be termed a club.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  Ah, sir," said the man with the ivory baton, "had you committed all the imaginable crimes you would be to me the most honest man in the world.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
Example Sentence:
1  The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.
2  They were driven back by a police baton charge.
3  What's the textbook way to handoff the baton in the relays?