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Example sentences for: baton

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Federal racketeering charges have been brought against Edwin Edwards — Louisiana State Governor until his retirement in 1996 — and the huge trial in Baton Rouge is keeping the state on the edge of its seat.
That's why the piano is used so seldom in parade music, and it's why we're a nation of fatties--all that standing around waiting for some baton twirler to arrive.
I, for one, say deTAIL, baTON, inQUIry or INquiry (depending on the day), adVERtisement, HARass, and reSEARCH, which leads me to think that these stress patterns are not necessarily distributed along dialectal lines.
And the author has been misled to infer that all Americans say deTAIL, baTON, INquiry adverTISEment, haRASS, and REsearch: both occur.
The novel, published in 1925, stands shoulder-high to Woolf's next book, To the Lighthouse --which is to say, to one of the dozen greatest novels written after World War I. It's almost entirely interior, set behind the eyes of a handful of upper-crust Londoners, with point of view slipped like a baton from one character to the next.