Words similar to tokens

Example sentences for: tokens

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

Such novel (mis)uses of English, as tokens of modernity rather than as normal messages, are now widespread in East Asia and elsewhere.
After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.
But the NYT front-page piece emphasizes a "little-noticed provision" (noticed, however, also by USAT ) that would let employers give workers up to $65 a month in tax-free mass-transit benefits (in the form, for instance, of subway tokens and bus passes).
In the background one can just make out the binoculars of an eager male viewer and the stripe on the trousers of an erect soldier, but all our attention gravitates toward the innocent isolation of these two performers, one of whom has gathered as many oranges, thrown as tokens from the appreciative crowd, as her small arms can hold.
"Apparently, they're making the new Monopoly tokens more gay-friendly."