Example sentences for: token

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

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

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

  • At one point, she gets so carried away with her thesis that she suggests that females were responsible not only for all of human evolutionary biology but for the very notion of counting (in order to keep track of menstruation) and, probably by the same token, astronomy.

  • 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).

  • But by the same token these are also the most inexhaustibly interesting and stylish psychoanalytic writings since Freud's.


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