How to Use roll call in a Sentence

roll call

noun
  • The roll call of the fallen was read aloud at the memorial service.
  • Two students missed roll call.
  • After roll call, the cadets were moved to a grassy area under a tree.
    Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Back to the roll call: Spencer accepts Gabbby's rose, and… oh come on!
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 July 2022
  • This story was updated at 6:51 p.m. to add the roll call vote on one of the bills.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 28 Sep. 2021
  • As the House began the sixth roll call vote, the impasse was not lost on anyone.
    Amanda Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Find when a vote occurred, and click the roll call link to see who voted how.
    John Kennedy, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The list of the 31 departed, or soon to be, is hardly a roll call of the walking dead.
    Robert Draper, New York Times, 30 May 2024
  • The roll call of the dead is distressing: A 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio.
    Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The Senate has five roll call votes on the measure scheduled for 10:30 a.m. EST.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Democrats gathered in front of the chamber, many arm in arm, as the final roll call ticked down.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The climax arrives when the sergeant conducts a surprise roll call.
    Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The room was silent as the clerk read the roll call when the committee returned to take a vote on Perry’s amendment.
    Sam Fortier, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The roll call of films ranges from the highbrow to the decidedly grungy, the menu of a true movie fanatic.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Cantrell said each unit has a logbook for checks and a roll call for when youths are off-unit -- at school or in the dining hall.
    Ginny Monk, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The board passed the agreement through a roll call vote, although Blankenship, Munchus and Mims all voted no.
    Heather Gann | Hgann@al.com, al, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Here's the roll call of great stories from our Impact Report.
    Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Consider the roll call of players now on the list: Lamar Jackson.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
  • With a bullhorn, González yells a roll call for groups that gathered for the demonstration.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
  • These sounds are the roll call of some of our most beloved onomatopoeias: crackle, sizzle, pop, slurp.
    Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Then, in a public meeting, the board will take a roll call on each candidate.
    Laura Hancock, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2022
  • For high school students, one of the most memorable parts of every first day of school is roll call.
    Achiraya Kurth, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The 18-year roll call of projects demonstrates a clear concept of what a museum of world folk arts can be.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The song caught fire on TikTok, with the track’s roll call of women being used as a springboard for dance-offs.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The original movie’s producing team is back on the roll call.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2024
  • Johnson said managers went so far as to take a roll call in hopes of finding out who had left work.
    NBC News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Each night of the festival, names on a memorial roll call will be read out loud at 7 p.m.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 31 Oct. 2020
  • All members of the opposition left the chamber while the roll call vote was taking place.
    Hadas Gold, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • Each name is added to an inauspicious roll call of the Black men and women killed at the hands of police that stretches back generations.
    Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
  • And raucous callouts to unions were strategically placed in many of the celebratory roll call votes.
    Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2024

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