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234 examples of Token in a sentence

The token strip joint.
A fairly good film, and something worth keeping as a token of your teenage golden years.
A tough rough sea captain named Thorne Sherman (James Best), love interest Ann Craigis (Ingrid Goude), hot-headed boyfriend Jerry (Ken Curtis), two scientists and a token black and token Latino guy are stuck on an island during a hurricane with large killer shrews running loose.
Four girls and a token guy, a geeky one at that, travel to a beach coast roadhouse to be the summer house band.
Scott Coffey is the token male on keyboards.
Lord Of The Flies makes it in as the Blaze era token track.. not bad but it would have been nice to have had a lesser heard classic thrown back in (Powerslave?
The President and Sec. of State are killed when a building collapses, and the Vice President had had a stroke a month earlier, so the Oval office falls to a token black staffmember (played by James Earl Jones).
With some veteran comic actors to keep things moving, a few token movie "stars" to put bums in seats, and great footage of the Laurentians, it's certainly pretty too look at.
The cast was predictable, with the notable recurring characters including the camp homosexual, the token minority, middle-aged woman acting like a 3 year old, prick teaser, arrogant pretty boy, insecure pretty boy, the mother/cleaner, etc.
Not a cheerleader or token dork in sight.
It had the cliché "token black guy" (in the Pacific Northwest.. yea!!! We'll stay away from there then, lol...) with the farmer's daughter white girl.
In the opening scenes we find out that the President and Speaker of the house have both been killed, and the Vice President has been an invalid for awhile, so the next person in line is James Earl Jones' character - he believes that he has been given his position as a token gesture.
To make all the black heroes of the books white for the movie, leaving only one token black character is inexcusable.
By the same token, it would be almost impossible to see it in your house on DVD, since there are so many possible distractions that would make you want to stop the film.
Leaving you with a feeling as if you've just gone through a spontaneous lobotomy, "Contagion" directed by John Murlowski gives off the token aura of a made-for-TV movie.
By much the same token, Europe’s governments should be making a determined new effort to strengthen Europeans’ sense of a shared history and common values.
By the same token the Bundesbank found itself in the role of Europe's central bank.
In South Africa, it was arguably the economic pressure brought by sanctions which eventually brought down the racist Apartheid system; but by the same token, it was economic support from the outside--including loans from multinational banks--which kept the system going for so long.
By the same token, reducing expectations means that the significance of the results should not be exaggerated.
The danger now is that Macron will achieve only a token eurozone budget in exchange for even tighter controls on national budgets, which would prove economically harmful and politically poisonous.
More likely is a token across-the-board tax cut: the losers will be future generations, out-lobbied by today’s avaricious moguls, the greediest of whom include those who owe their fortunes to scummy activities, like gambling.
By the same token, good politics can certainly coexist with bad economics: Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s austerity policies condemned the United Kingdom to years of stagnation.
By the same token, emerging economies are not the problem.
His circle is packed with yes-men (and some token yes-women), who strive to satisfy his sense of omniscience and magnificence.
The middle classes take their cars for granted, while the world’s poor aspire to car ownership as a token and a tool of advancement.
Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had made a passionate appeal for funds around the world, had taken a token helicopter trip to the destroyed town of Besham, and then made fantastic promises of relief and rehabilitation.
By the same token, regulations should be based on international standards, where they exist.
For many women, however, the veil is a token of liberation – an indication that they have engaged with the Moroccan public in ways that reflect their own sense of religious practice.
Its efforts focus mainly on increasing banks’ mandatory reserve ratios while introducing administrative measures to deal with food price pressures, approving a couple of token interest-rate hikes, and managing a modest upward adjustment in the currency.
By the same token, auditing firms that make more money from consulting than from providing auditing services have a conflict of interest: they have (at least in the short run) an incentive to go easy on their clients, or even, as consultants, to help their clients think of ways - "within the rules," of course -- that improve the appearance of profits.
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