How to Use call in a Sentence

call

1 of 2 verb

• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024