Example Sentences

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You’ll have to get your baton-twirling skills in order if you really want to get in on that spinning action.

From The Verge • May 29, 2022

Ford coaches the baton-twirling team at Woodlawn High School.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2018

She was born in Phoenix in 1948 to a baton-twirling mom and a business executive dad, and the family moved to San Mateo, Calif., in 1964.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2017

A girl in 1970s Florida who is abandoned by her father tries to lure him back home by baton-twirling her way into the newspaper in this heartbreaking, utterly enchanting novel.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2016

At home, after the very strange baton-twirling class, Raymie sat in her room with the door closed and worked on the Little Miss Central Florida Tire application.

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo