How to use "call" in a sentence

I call it my first voice.

'Hi,' I call as I climb down the rock

He will probably call my family and they will tell the police that I am missing

Could you call me right away if he gets back?'

If he's not back by then, I'll call his parents.'

He might call the police and report me missing

I called him last week and left a message, but he didn't call back

'I think you should call the Aspen police.'

When Elliot reached the store, he received a call from Mrs Ralston

I'll call Officer Crider and give him the correct number.'

Ned screamed at the locked door, but no one answered his call.

Ned Land tried to call the ship over

We call him the "Mad Hatter".'

'Perhaps they'll call me back,' she thought

'We have to call people into the room, and ask them questions.'

'Why did you call me? I wanted to finish my tea,' he said.

'What do you call him?'

It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law

But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for un delayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

'I'll call him.'

'Euphrasie - but I call her Cosette

Madeleine - as we shall continue to call him for this part of the story - knew that he could not let Champmathieu go to prison for crimes he had not committed

Jean Valjean (as we must now call him) shook Javert's hand from his collar and ran to the bed

'If you don't come with me now, I'll have to call my men.'

'I call the man M

'That's what you rich people call people like me, isn't it? Just because I've failed in business

I was a war hero, you know - I saved an officer's life at Waterloo! And you call me a criminal! Well, I'm going to teach you a lesson.'

'You mustn't call me "father" any more,' he told her

'You must call me "Monsieur Jean".'

"Don't you dare call me that," she says in a tone as cold as the water

You can call that stupid girl of yours 'Darling,' but not me

Tonight is a good night to go out for a few drinks, he thinks, and he is deciding whom to call, when he hears a female voice.

You know you should call the police, but you need to do something more, something quick.

any information call..." and then the signal fails, and there is only the sound of the old classic engine and the silence of the desert.

any information call..."

Greg made the call to the hotel, and they drove to the cabin in the Yoho national park

But last night he didn't call for anything."

They call it 'poaching'."

Could it be a park ranger from the Forestry Commission? Did someone see the car parked in the trees and call the police?

A call came in on Sala's ultranet connection, and her heart jumped.

She was over an hour late for meeting him at the simulator center, and because her ultranet connection didn't come back on until she was almost there, she couldn't even call him or send him a message

My family always call me Maxim

I'd like you to call me that too.'

I could call him Maxim

And I had to call him Maxim.

'We call it the Happy Valley,' he said.

'Beat the drum,' I said, 'and call out: Miss Caroline de Winter.'

There was a long-distance call for her at six

The Los Angeles newspapers call him The Cat

'And you can call me Natalie.'

This evening she would call Michael, when she got home from the premiere and the party afterward

She remembered the two words that she had twice erased from Danny's chalkboard - NOT DEAD - and she realized that she'd forgotten to call Michael

She could turn on the light and call him now

She would call him in the morning when she had regained some of her strength.

A couple of minutes later, having completed the call, Tina went back to Danny's room to survey the damage again

He's been drinking pretty regularly, but he's so deep in a trance that he can completely ignore the call of nature until - bingo! - He has a bladder spasm

"There's what we call 'jackpot attack,'" Michael said

"But my favorite is what we call the 'time-warp syndrome.' People come here from a lot of dull places, and Vegas is like an adult Disneyland

Tina paged through the book until she found the code that she needed to call up the list of the hotel's best customers

Tina waited until at least a hundred names had been listed before she decided that the system had been programmed to print the lines about Danny only one time, only on her office's first data request of the afternoon, and on no later call-up.

"Then I'll call you at home this evening."

I'll call you this evening, after I've had a chance to think about it."

He had no choice but to wait for Kennebeck's call.

"Did you call the police?"

If they hadn't seen their kids' bodies, they might have just gone through a year of doubt like you did, might be easily persuaded to join us in a call for the reopening of all the graves

"Can't we just call Bellicosti?"

What do you call that? Isn't there a name for that ability?"

The hotel doctor would call it a heart attack after he had examined the body

I'll call the night manager at the airport down there, pretend to be FBI, see what he can tell me."

"We can call the rental agencies at the Reno airport."

"No need to call

She said, "People who believe in the occult have a thing they call 'automatic writing.' Ever hear of it?"

"I'll call Morgan," he said.

They call the stuff 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center.

Please call the police and come quickly.'

'No, call the police first, or they'll ask you awkward questions

'I'll give you what your commissaire would call my "confession".'

If you cannot work, I'll call Professor Augier, and he and all your other friends will save you

And where's the weapon? I'd better call the police.' He picked up the telephone and gave the facts as simply as possible.

'I'll call the station,' said Slack, 'and then we'll get to work on this room.'

It's what people call intuition

'Just think of the call as a joke, and don't worry, Mrs Price Ridley,' I said.

But first I'm going to investigate that telephone call.'

I meant the call that got you out of the vicarage

Well, the telephone call was at about half-past five.'

'It was an unusual time to call on him.'

'I wanted an excuse to call on Miss Marple

'I've found out about that telephone call that you received.'

'It shows that call was made deliberately to get you out of the house

If the call had just been a joke, the fingerprints would not have been wiped off so carefully.'

You remember Mrs Price Ridley's complaint about that call to her house?'

'But it wasn't Mr Redding who made the call

'So why was the first call not made from his cottage?' I asked.

Now you see why the call was made from there.'

But if only that shot hadn't come just at the end of the call - well, I'd know where to look.'

Then suddenly he shouted, 'Got it! That telephone call was an alibi

She knew we'd connect it with the first one, so she paid some village boy to make the call for her

I told of my appointment with Protheroe and the phone call asking me to go to the Abbotts' house

Will you call in and see me this afternoon?'

So I asked them to call me when the line was free.

Where are you? I've found out about that call

I explained about the telephone call and how I had thought I recognized Hawes' voice

'But the telephone call,' I said

'But what about the other telephone call?' Colonel Melchett asked

Dear Griselda made that call

The coincidence was that the call was made at exactly the same time as the pretend shot from the wood

It's coming into your life, too! And you can't call me a dear child any more when we have a real child of our own

In the back of the head, or body - I do not really know what to call it - there was a flat surface like the skin of a drum, which we now know worked as an ear

'"If we need any help, we'll call you," she said and shut the door in my face.

'Now, go back to Norbury, and when you see that those people have returned to the cottage, call us

'Now we can do nothing except wait for Mr Munro to call us, and then we will see if my theory is correct.'

There were four of us - George, William Samuel Harris, myself (my friends call me J), and Montmorency

I will not sign this letter, and I will not name the gentleman in question - let's just call him Sir P...