Example sentences for: token

How can you use “token” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Anxious to avoid being blamed for Palestinian landlessness, British officials began imposing token restrictions on Jewish land purchase in 1940.

  • Their hesitantly pro-life platforms are useful token gestures "of occasional conformity with the governing [pro-choice] orthodoxy."

  • If his move toward the center means that the inexorable Republican tide continues to rise, then, by the same token, it counts as a Democratic victory that Republicans retained control of the House only by disavowing their 1994 vintage radicalism.

  • But this particular proposal is a stinker, says Margaret Carlson ( Capital Gang ), because it offers parents a mere token of tax relief ($37 per year).

  • The Guardian of London said in an editorial that Russia's allowing a "token" visit by a representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to the embattled republic "will do nothing to halt the gut-wrenching mayhem in Chechnya, where there remains no prospect of a ceasefire or even of a de-escalation."


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