How to Use house call in a Sentence

house call

noun
  • Does your doctor make house calls?
  • And this might be the true magic of the virtual house call.
    Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Can’t someone get Patti Stanger on the line for a house call?
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 July 2021
  • And the child, if no one else did, recalled how the handsome doc’s house calls had saved her.
    Allan Gurganus, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Both scores came in the fourth quarter; the first a 75-yard run, the other a back-breaking 85-yard house call.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Did something about your house call out for a palette of white and gold?
    Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 1 Apr. 2012
  • Their house calls are free and not focused on sales, and can last as long as 90 minutes.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 20 July 2018
  • Now Apple is trying to ease the pain by making house calls.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Some stylists were shifting to house calls before covid-19 hit.
    The Economist, 28 May 2020
  • Pastor Cal also pays a house call to a couple on the edge of breaking up.
    oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The cops continue to bust outlaw hair stylists who do house calls.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2020
  • You artist hired piercers for a Galentine's Day house call to treat her team to body jewelry.
    Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • In May, Moore told me that a suspect in a case of hers should be expecting a house call from the police soon.
    New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • During many of these house calls, Thomas balanced life and death in his worn doctor’s bag.
    Laken Brooks, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And so, after his telemedicine visits, Nagrani set out to make five house calls.
    David Montgomery, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The team plans to make house calls on Tuesdays and Fridays, Dwojakowski said.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2020
  • As a moment caught in time, the painting depicts a physician at a child’s bedside during a house call near the end of the 1800s.
    Bryan Vartabedian, STAT, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Doctors who once had to make house calls could be consulted by phone.
    Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One of the first house calls was to a woman who lived alone in a mobile home park and just had an operation.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Demani Richardson took the ball from Chappell and returned it for an 82-yard house call.
    Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Those are probably the ones who charge $200 for their services and also make house calls, like Wong says.
    refinery29.com, 15 May 2018
  • Even with a house call, your dog may still need to be medicated to reduce her stress.
    Cathy M. Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Blanke said he's driven three hours to make a house call on a Death with Dignity patient.
    Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • After his appointment, Barreto grabs breakfast and then heads to his first house call of the day.
    Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American, 10 June 2022
  • Other times, staffers make house calls for a nominal fee.
    Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Each house call or hospital visit now required at least three pairs of gloves and two gowns.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 14 Dec. 2020
  • But this weekend, the winter staple made house calls in neighborhoods that haven’t seen snow in decades.
    Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Stuart Dean makes house calls, but the minimum fee is $650, Gargiulo said.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The play space in Rabbit Land was a sort of rabbit house called Bushållplatsen—a hill with little doors and windows inside and out.
    Kiley Bates-Brennan, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2017
  • Bobby Okereke had a sharp tackle in the hole on Saquon Barkley in the second quarter that might have saved a house call and the latest Barkley highlight.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Jan. 2023

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