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How to use call in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Call means to request, summon, or beckon. Example: “That person is hurt; call for help!”

Examples of call by meaning

verbTo request, summon, or beckon.

  • That person is hurt; call for help!

verbTo cry or shout.

  • "Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen.

verbTo utter in a loud or distinct voice.

  • to call the roll of a military company

verbTo contact by telephone.

  • Why don’t you call me in the morning?
  • Why don’t you call tomorrow?
  • He called a number.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 41

verbTo request that one's band play (a particular tune).

  • They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?1997, Saxophone Journal
  • Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediately called Satin Doll.2002, Ken Vail, Duke's Diary
  • I thought he forgot all about it, but late in the set he called St.2015, Clyde E. B. Bernhardt, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues, University of Pennsylvania Press...

verbTo pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers...

  • We could always call on a friend.
  • The engineer called round whilst you were away.

verbTo stop at a station or port.

  • This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.
  • Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.

verbTo name or refer to.

  • Why don’t we dispense with the formalities? Please call me Al.
  • Don't call me a liar.
  • I don't know how you and the 'head,' as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a 'livery' again there'll be trouble.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

More sentences with call

  • I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.From the entry head
  • Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".From the entry on
  • He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.From the entry accordingly
  • Let's give her a call. Do you have her number handy?From the entry number
  • The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".From the entry second
  • After we had decided to call it a day, I went home.From the entry after
  • A few customers in the shop had some quarrels with us, so we called for the manager.From the entry quarrel
  • Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.From the entry accident
  • Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals.From the entry collateral
  • Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.From the entry me
  • If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.From the entry them
  • In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors.From the entry idiom
  • Do I just call every number on the list each time?From the entry do
  • Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".From the entry nurse
  • I couldn’t hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.From the entry break
  • We felt it (to be) our duty to call the police.From the entry feel
  • Please forgive me if my phone goes off - I'm expecting an urgent call from my boss.From the entry forgive
  • I never thought he'd go so far as to call you.From the entry go
  • I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.From the entry machine
  • Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.From the entry business
  • Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call.From the entry run
  • Paramount Pictures has set Jennifer Love Hewitt for a movie called Two Can Play This Game.From the entry set
  • What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.From the entry stick
  • Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.From the entry change

Meaning of call

  1. verb To request, summon, or beckon.
  2. verb To cry or shout.
  3. verb To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

Full definition of call

Questions about call in a sentence

How do you use call in a sentence?
Call is used as a verb and noun. For example: “That person is hurt; call for help!”
What is a short sentence with call?
“He called a number.”
What does call mean?
Call means to request, summon, or beckon.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: call (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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