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234 examples of Token in a sentence

Putney Swope is on the board for no other reason than the fact that he is black, and the agency needs a "token" on the board.
Cagney plays Patsy Gargan, a gang leader himself, who is given a token position as a deputy commissioner.
With no likable characters, including, but not limited to, a kid who's the freakiest looking guy since "Friday the 13th part 2"' a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her, and the token fat slob, because after all what would an '80's sex comedy be without a fat slob?? Well this one has two.
The token troubled black guy (LL COOL J) who is with a gorgeous woman who he otherwise would not even belong with in real life.
He needs to stop playing the token guy who dies in every action movie (Anaconda, Armageddon).
By the same token, it's easy to see how the opposite of that can create another insipid Hollywood bore-a-thon!
And, of course, like most movies and T.V series made in Hollywood we have to throw it a token "gay" character!
it also fails to even include token screen time for tomas' son, used in the novel to exemplify some of the political points kundera was making in the novel.
But Julian is the one who, under only token pressure, blurted out his intentions in public.
I also wish they'd done some self-referential humor about the changes - like on "Boy Meets World" where they drop the little sister for an entire season or so, and when a different actor later shows up playing her, they ask her where she's been and she says "upstairs," or when early series token geek "Minkus" shows up for the high school graduation, they ask him where he's been and he says "over there," pointing to the part of the classroom never shown by the camera, before saying "Hey, Mr. Turner, wait up!" and running off screen (Mr. turner being another character who left) Oh well - maybe there will be an E true Hollywood story on this or something?
This is the token moody period Gothic horror entry from the bunch.
It has it all: cars, gun shooting, fighting, and even a token girl.
The title has many meanings - the boxing ring, where differences and grievances are fought out, a wedding ring, where Mabel feels trapped and Jack feels his troubles will be over and the cause of the trouble, a ring-like bracelet that Bill gives Mabel as a love token.
Meanwhile, Miles is given a wendigo (a kind of Indian shape-shifting spirit/monster) token by an Indian whom only he has seen.
For instance, the movie is based on the book and if the writer had a gay character in it then how could "Hollywood" just throw in a token gay character in the movie.
with its token 80's porn soundtrack and English dubbed over English this film has made me realize that some movies need to be sunk below a 1 grade on the voting scale.
And the funniest thing of all was throwing in the token white kid with blond hair and glasses.
Do not be misled by the token appearance of Rodney Dangerfield, because he is almost totally wasted, and Randy Quaid's character is so repetitively abrasive, he quickly becomes boring.
You could say this is the best sci-fi movie ever, and I would only put up a token argument.
Eponine wasn't anywhere to be seen, Thenardier, Gavroche and the priest were only token inclusions and the death of Gavroche doesn't move us at all because we hardly know who he is.
I don't even recall a token ass shot.
The premise is 5 teenagers go to Ireland to try some magic mushrooms, they pickup the other token spooky Irish guy when they get there.
I have lost faith in the Human Race if this film gets a rating of over 5! I wont put any spoilers... but to be honest it would make no difference: We have the token villain who cares about treasure more than anything.
The pace is slow but intentionally so, as the froggies move in while a group of rich people (and Sam Elliot as the token environmentalist) are about to have a outdoor picnic.
While Jenny and Robert go skinny dipping they are spied on by two token hillbilly mountain boys Danker and writer/actor James Keach as Levon.
And to top it all off, the token old guy who is helping them tilts his body back and gives shrieks of ecstasy right in sync with the music!
Only hinting at the contents of their hearts and minds, a token poorly executed sub-plot does little to open any of these doors.
After the token black fifth wheel is snuffed out, the survivors (plus a young woman who escaped an earlier sacrifice attempt) stumble onto a very small town inhabited by (surprise!)
Stop me if you've already heard this one before: Six extremely annoying and unappealing college kids -- sassy blonde Rachel (Catherine Wreford), obnoxious, insensitive, and spineless musclehead Mark (a supremely terrible and insufferable performance by Alan Ritchson), sexy libidinous lesbians Atlanta (cute blonde Ashley Hawkins) and Liz (foxy brunette Tiffany Kristensen, who at least bares her breasts prior to getting bumped off first), bumbling nice guy Adam (decently played by Tom Nagel), and token black Sophie (Myiea Coy) -- on a cross country road trip run afoul of a vicious family of deadly and demented hicks after they get a flat tire in the middle of some nowheresville sticks.
While the movie is supposed to highlight the women, and have males as supporting characters, the plot so demonized the men that even the "nice" men such as Gregory Hines and Wesley Snipes seem entirely out of place and more token goodness than believeable characters.
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