How to use "called" in a sentence

Since that time, the area has been called Robbers Roost country.

There are also a lot of very large rocks called boulders, stuck between the canyon walls

But this time, I just called a quick goodbye to my housemates - Brian, Joe, and Leona

Early Tuesday morning, he called the house and spoke to Leona.

She called Brion later that afternoon to ask if Aron had arrived.

At six-thirty that evening, they called the police

At nine-fifteen, he called Leona to check if he had arrived, but he hadn't

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

After Brion had called the Aspen police, the head officer, Adam Crider, started the rescue operation

He called Mrs Ralston for the license-plate number of her son's truck

Officer Crider called back and told Mrs Ralston there was no record of that license plate

He called Aron's housemate Elliot and asked him to manage the store and rescue operation until he returned

Steve called the Utah police for the area and spoke to one the main officers, Kyle Ekker

She called and an officer searched the records and found Aron's name

He called Glen Sherrill, the head officer for the area

Twenty minutes later, Glen called back

His wife is Monique and his son is called Andy

I was famous because I was the writer of a book called The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths

Another bird called to her children, 'Come away, my dears! It's time for bed!'

'Come back!' the Caterpillar called

He called to the Queen, 'My dear, I don't like this cat.'

The man in the car was a football coach called Fellers

I lived in a room with a man called Curtis

But Coach Bryant called me across

Then Curtis ran after me, and called me all kinds of terrible names.

When they were winning 28 to 7, Coach Bryant called me across

She was now playing in a group called The Broken Eggs, and they played two nights each week at a place called the Hodaddy Club near Harvard University

Then one day a man called Mike came into the bar.

'Of course,' said Jenny, and she called to him

'Why is it called Sue if it's a he?'

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented

I ask, is it unconstitutional for a policeman or for a soldier to tender his resignation when he knows that he is called to serve a Government which traduces his own countrymen? Is it unconstitutional for me to go to the agriculturist and say to him "it's not wise for you to pay any taxes, if these taxes are used by the Government not to raise you but to weaken you?" I hold and I venture to submit, that there is nothing unconstitutional in it

A few minutes later I called the clerk into my office.

a man called Beckwith had started an insurance policy with the company

He called to me by name

'Hey! Julius! Come in here and have a drink!' he called.

He probably ran into Whitechapel Road through a narrow lane called Wood's Buildings.

Elizabeth sometimes stayed at a lodging house in Flower and Dean Street, where people called her Long Liz

He ran to a warehouse nearby and called out for the night watchman, a man named Morris

Mr Morris, the night watchman in the warehouse, went to the door and looked into the square 'two moments before Constable Watkins called him

The man called Jack the Ripper was never caught, and his name will probably never be known

In 1902 Inspector Abbeline suspected a man called George Chapman, a publican who was arrested for poisoning his barmaid Maud Marsh

On August 7th, before the Buck's Row murder, a woman called Martha Tabram was killed and then stabbed ferociously with a knife 39 times

At the time the newspapers called it 'unique and mysterious' and the work of a homicidal maniac.

When the police found a leather apron at the scene of the Hanbury Street murder, they hunted a man called John Pizer, a Polish boot-maker who always wore a leather apron for his work

A young criminal called Squibby, for example, was in Hanbury Street, when a detective saw him in the crowd and chased him

When a man called Brennan began to shout about the murders in a pub in Camberwell, the customers ran out into the street and Brennan was soon arrested

'You'll let me stay? I'm a dangerous criminal, but you called me "Monsieur"

He called the boy's name, but there was no reply

Mme Thenardier still said nothing, but a man's voice from inside the house called, 'We'll take seven francs a month, and six months in advance.'

'And another fifteen francs for extras,' called the man.

Madeleine, but I believed you were a man called Jean Valjean

Finally, having heard all the evidence, the judge called for silence

Realizing that one of the girls must have dropped it, he picked it up and called after them, but it was too late

'A fine job!' the elder girl called back

'Tomorrow you'll have fur boots!' her father called out after her.

'Now cut his throat!' Thenardier called.

Gillenormand called for Marius to come back, but it was too late

He called her name again and again until, exhausted, he sat down on the stone steps

'Put down your weapons and surrender!' a soldier called from the top of the barricade.

The survivors were reloading their guns in silence, when suddenly a loud voice called, 'Get out now, or I'll blow up the barricade!'

'If you blow up the barricade,' a sergeant called, 'you'll blow up yourself as well!'

He folded the letter, wrote Cosette's new address on the back and called over a young boy.

Valjean went into his house and called, 'It's me!' Climbing the stairs, he paused for a moment to look out of the window to see what Javert was doing

You've called me "grandfather"; you've shown me that you love me after all

One evening in April, he called at the usual time but was told that Cosette had gone out with her husband

He had discovered that Valjean's money really belonged to somebody called Monsieur Madeleine, a wealthy manufacturer from Montreuil who had mysteriously disappeared

Jean Valjean looked up when he heard the knock on his door and called in a weak voice, 'Come in.'

It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.

And the brother called Darwin comes out of the bar with two small bottles of beer.

So instead he just wants to get as far from the town called Needles as he can before the night comes.

"Sally left me last month," he said, and he called the waiter for another beer

See, there was once a young man called Jimmy Lane

Some people say that the reason his casino is called Shark Pool is because Hank looks a little like a shark

The rest of her family jokingly called it her "Real Space."

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

"Is that you, Sala?" called a voice from somewhere above

"Of course," called Gran

A friendly young woman called Zee guided them to their pod area.

"Sala!" he called.

"Wena!" she called, her voice high with fear

"Sala! What on earth is it?" Mom called down from the Real Space

"Parents! Friends!" called a loud voice

The line moved forward slowly; then a technician called Odem led them through the thick glass doors, past the test laboratory, and into a waiting room

"We're ready for visitors!" called a cheerful voice

He called the waiter.

Mrs Van Hopper called me from her bedroom

He called to the waiter who came up at once

His family called him Maxim

Rebecca had called him Max

She called him Max

'Is that you?' called Mrs Van Hopper

'Not that way,' called Maxim

We called and whistled, but he did not come.

'Jasper, Jasper,' called Maxim.

One afternoon, I was having tea alone when the wife of the bishop called

I noticed that Frank always called Rebecca 'she'

Then I called Jasper and we went together into the woods.

'Not that way, Jasper,' I called

'I called to see Danny

And, like Rebecca, he called Maxim 'Max'

'Have you ever heard of a man called Jack Favell, Beatrice?' I asked her.

I called Jasper and we went for a walk through the woods

'Who's there?' I called

'A ship's hit the rocks in the bay,' Maxim called out

'She had a cousin, an awful man, called Jack Favell

'She knew no one called Baker.'

Somewhere in London lived a man called Baker

'No one called de Winter has ever come to me.'

'The woman who called herself Mrs Danvers was very ill indeed

When he was very young, he had called it "neenut putter."

"I haven't called them."

"I ought to have called the police right away."

By the time he called the police and managed to explain the situation, they might be too late to help Tina.

The gas company workman called from the front of the house, startling Tina.

Twisting around in terror, she called Elliot's name

"I'll take care of it, folks." He called to one of the waitresses: "Jenny, check the thermostat

Jenny, the waitress, called to him from behind the counter

Fifteen minutes later computer operations called back with its report

Danny called to her again and again, begging her to save him before the roof of his underground prison caved in and buried him alive

After the old man hung up, Alexander called his own office, in no mood to be told that Elliot Stryker and Christina Evans were still at large

"When we were running operations against the drug lords down in Colombia," Morgan said, "they called me 'Bats,' meaning I had bats in the belfry." He laughed.

Therefore, I will devote what space I am given here to this novel itself and to the savage, brutal, cruel, maddening, insane, inane, nonsensical, stupid, bewildering, toxic, bloodcurdling, lip-chafing, toenail-curling experience of working with a major television network to adapt this novel, and three others, as part of a program that would have been called The Dean Koontz Theater or Dean Koontz Presents or possibly Here's Dean! or even Koontzapalooza

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

'Come in!' he called.

His ship is called the Star

Has he called you?' asked Commissaire Charas, as I got into the car.

I called Mary and I ordered her to run and fetch Dr Haydock

He was called out to a patient, but he should be back by now

When Lawrence Redding arrived, I was called to the study.

'The lady was called on the telephone,' he said

'I've taken Mrs Protheroe home,' he called

'I called to tell you how sorry I was that such a death has happened in the vicarage

'Well, what about the lady who called on Colonel Protheroe the night before the murder?'

'So can you tell me anything about the lady who called to see Colonel Protheroe the night before he died.'

I thought that the sounds came from up above but when I called up these stairs, "Is anybody there?" there was no answer, so I went back to bed

And I think we ought to find out for certain.' I went once more to the telephone and called Old Hall

'When I called on Mrs Lestrange on the afternoon of the murder I thought she was out

I went straight home afterwards, and Mrs Protheroe called at about half-past six to borrow a gardening magazine

Lawrence Redding first called on the vicar, knowing that he was out

When the vicar came in, Lawrence explained that he had called to tell him that he had decided to leave the village

'There is, I think, something called a Maxim silencer

'Henderson,' he called, 'you saw that meteorite last night?'

As soon as Ogilvy saw me, he called me to come down, and asked me if I would mind going over to see Lord Hilton, who owned the land

The police who had been sent to direct the traffic, exhausted and angry, were fighting with the people they had been called out to protect.

She went to America when she was very young and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married a man called Hebron who was a lawyer

People called me 'a lazy little devil', and said, 'go and do your work.' They did not know I was ill with liver disease

An angry woman brought me her dead cat and called me a murderer

'Sissie!' Mercy called.

'We are in here,' called Connie.

'I was happy there once, in a village called Limmeridge

A lady called Mrs Fairlie was kind to me, but now she and her husband are both dead.'

I started to follow her, but then Miss Halcombe called me, and I returned to the drawing-room

Listen: "There is a new student at the village school, a little girl called Anne Catherick

I tried to be a good wife, but Percival was so cruel! One day in Rome, a lady called Mrs Markland came to visit us

When she was gone, I said, 'Oh, Laura! You shouldn't have called the Count a spy!'

'My wife knows it, and a drawing teacher called Walter Hartright knows it

One day, Sir Percival called me into his study and said, 'I plan to leave Blackwater Park

'Goodbye, my lady!' I called, as the train moved off.

'Did you say that the parish clerk before you was called Catherick?' I asked in surprise.

The entry above - recording the marriage of a man called Walter - took much more space

I found the record of the marriage of the man called Walter, but the space at the bottom of the page was empty! On the next page was the record of the double marriage

Perhaps Pesca knew the Count? Perhaps the Count really was a spy - a spy in a much more important sense than Laura had intended when she called him by that name.

When I was young, I joined a secret political association in Italy called the Brotherhood

Today, Mary Wollstonecraft is called "the mother of British feminism"

In 2007, a group of men called the Taliban came to the Swat Valley

She is famous because she did not stand up! When Rosa was a young woman, in many places in the USA, black people - who were called "coloureds" at that time - and white people could not sit together.

The driver asked, "Why don't you stand up?" Rosa replied, "I don't think I should have to stand up." The driver called the police, and Rosa was arrested

The most famous is a woman called Emmeline Pankhurst

In 1879, Emmeline married a lawyer called Richard Pankhurst

In 1913, a suffragette called Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse at a famous horse race

The most famous one was called "Freedom or Death"

In 1999, Time magazine called Emmeline Pankhurst one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century

One of the greatest European women at this time was a French philosopher, thinker and writer called Simone de Beauvoir.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies." People have called her "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World".

Marie Curie's name was not there! Then, a Swedish professor of mathematics called Gosta Mittag-Leffler, who was on the Nobel Committee, wrote a letter to Pierre Curie

She came from Ceylon, a country that is now called Sri Lanka

One of the first women to fly was a young woman called Amelia Earhart

It was called "The Canary"

In the early morning, Amelia called the Itasca, a US ship

But, in 1960, a space programme was started by an American man called William Randolph Lovelace, who worked at NASA

It was called the "Women in Space" programme

People called her "the flying housewife", which is a word for a woman who stays at home to look after her husband and children

They are called the Sustainable Development Goals.

This is called "child marriage"

The words "Me Too" were first used by an American woman called Tarana Burke in 2006

More than 300 women from Hollywood got together and started a group called "Time's Up"

There is also a Spanish church called a mission