calling

Example Sentences

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In the weeks that followed, a man calling himself Hewlitt Cosgrove Thompson paid three visits to a coin dealer in London, selling them about 50 medieval gold coins for more than £23,000.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

No supplier wants to be singled out for not doing enough to prepare, Chief Financial Officer Roger Dassen told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year, calling the meetings “healthy peer pressure.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

About half a mile out, they heard her calling for help.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Leah responded by calling the examination “harsh” and the doctors’ charges “cruel.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock