How to Use call in a Sentence

call

1 of 2 verb
Definition of callnext
Synonyms for callnext
  • The birds were calling as the sun rose.
  • She saw her friends across the street and called over to them.
  • She called up to her husband, who was at the top of the stairs.
  • He called her name in his sleep.
  • I call once a week to talk to my parents.
  • He called to passersby for help.
  • I try to call my parents at least once a week.
  • Her husband called back down to her.
  • Where are you calling from?
  • May I say who's calling?
  • The right move, rather, is to call and bluff some of the time, and to do so unpredictably.
    — Chris Blattman, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The original posts call on users to share the post so the dog's owner can be found.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Many lack phones or way to keep them charged, and so are unable to call 911 for help.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
  • Changes on the platform have led some high-profile users to call it quits.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Most trucks dress their top-end trims with some extra leather and wood and call it a day.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Even with the day's success on the fund, there was a brewing dispute over what to call it.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Both of those races seem likely to go down to election day as too close to call.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
  • If that’s the case, the iPhone 14 or Apple Watch will call first responders on its own.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The rest don’t have relationships with their in-laws or aren’t sure what to call them.
    — Gretchen Tarrant, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Most locations will be open, but call ahead to check their hours.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Seb derm, as most derms call it, is one of the most common scalp conditions.
    — Mona Gohara, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Another way to check is to simply call the number on the back.
    — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The Norse scored the first eight points of the second half, prompting Cincinnati coach Wes Miller to call a timeout to stop the bleeding.
    — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Soft-spoken and sweet, Jennifer doesn’t blink when her customers call her by the wrong name.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The program makes that call one of best investments in Alaska.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • For a more manageable bite of the ATL, as locals call it, follow these guides to five​ key sections of the city.
    — Mike Jordan, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Bryant's legal team is expected to call around 30 witnesses to the stand over the next few days.
    — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Lopez's writing aches with a sense of yearning — for love, for acceptance, for a place and a people to call home.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • And while much progress has been made, many people are still waiting for a permanent place to call home.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The group wants Biden to call for bipartisan police reforms next week.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
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call

2 of 2 noun
  • He gave a call to passersby for help.
  • I got a call from my brother last night.
  • We heard a bird that had a very loud and unusual call.
  • He has a large collection of duck calls.
  • He's an expert at doing bird calls.
  • The government has issued a call to its supporters to defend it and hopes they will answer its call.
  • The campaigners renewed their calls for reform.
  • If there are any calls for me during the meeting, say that I'll call back later.
  • A local call costs less than a long-distance or an international call.
  • That left him down in the count 0-1 and confused about the call.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023
  • That call had come from that friend of Jade's — a man named Adam Siplyak.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Isaac has answered the call and is seen as a hero for those who need help the most.
    — The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But the people on the call looked and sounded just like his colleagues.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Near the end of her call, a loud noise is heard, followed by a scream from Heidi.
    — Jordan Kinsey, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • After a few calls, Maram’s cousin, a taxi-driver, agrees to take us.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • But this labor dispute is about a lot more than whether the right calls are made in the right moments.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • But what is happening with their bonds should be a wake-up call.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But the long calls — and then his injuries — bonded them, and the couple soon married.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • After seeing the photo, Miller, who is Black, joined in the calls for the statue to be taken down.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The same holds true for customer service reps when calls aren’t going your way.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 1 Jan. 2024
  • And for a brief moment or two in the winter, that call — and the economic doom-and-gloom that underpinned it — looked right.
    — Denitsa Tsekova, Fortune, 30 July 2023
  • Every 13 or 17 years, the buzzy mating call of billions of cicadas is the soundtrack of the summer in some parts of the United States.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions from The Times about the circumstances around those calls.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Close to a third of the calls to poison control involved children under six years old.
    — Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination; Amy Yurkanin, Al.com; John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The spearfisherman and another person helped carry Phan back to the beach, where a 911 call was placed.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • On that call with Letterman, Jack retold a famous story about a beaver from the show.
    — Mike Wagner, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • But if hitting your steps is your main goal, an under-desk treadmill might be the better call.
    — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In 680, Hussein had hearkened to the call of Muslims in the garrison town of Kufa, a few miles east of Najaf.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Reports of the growing use of hacking tools have fueled calls to restrict their use.
    — Dustin Volz, WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • Many songs from across the musical canon feature the sound of ocean waves, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, bird calls and other sounds of nature.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2024

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