Calling in sentence

1730 examples of Calling in a sentence

To give it legitimacy, copy editors call it "the singular 'their,'" as if calling it singular makes it no longer plural.

We took a story by J.D. Salinger, in which a husband lost track of his wife in the middle of a party, and he's calling his best friend, asking, "Did you see my wife?"

Maybe even just calling it that for some of these people would allow them to stop imagining trying to imagine a trauma that didn't really happen in order to explain a feeling that really is happening.

And janitor man is still calling Saint Anthony, but he ain't pickin' up.

He was calling me to tell me they had met all day yesterday and he was confidentially telling me they were going to start a hall of fame and these were the inductees.

The bank managers would indulge us for 30-45 seconds before calling security.

We were calling out our names, a little bit like a roll call, waiting for responses.

People blamed the Prime Minister for calling the referendum in the first place.

So scientists have started calling ecosystems like these "novel ecosystems," because they're often dominated by non-native species, and because they're just super weird.

An anonymous person calling himself John Doe had somehow managed to copy nearly 40 years of records of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.

An executive told me recently that after doing allyship on his team, the whole team started to normalize calling themselves out and each other out for interrupting.

And many Tunisians are calling on their government to do whatever it takes to keep them safe.

For 18 months in the Intifada, women were the ones calling the shots behind the scenes: Palestinian women from all walks of life in charge of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people in a concerted effort to withdraw consent from the occupation.

It was calling them out on the effect they had caused.

And the colonel who was in charge of this testing exercise ends up calling it off, because, he says, it's too inhumane to watch this damaged robot drag itself along the minefield.

He's increasingly calling the shots.

Here in the US, we have presidential candidates like Donald Trump, casually calling to register American Muslims, and ban Muslim immigrants and refugees from entering this country.

So we're calling out for cutting-edge solutions and new ideas.

And they're calling out for a fighting chance to build a better world.

So their call should be our calling.

The calling of our time.

So we started by calling it "The Women's Equality Party."

So we're calling our resilience-enhancing drugs "paravaccines," which means vaccine-like, because it seems like they might have the potential to protect against stress and prevent mice from developing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

For someone who wants to cure diseases, there is no higher calling.

I've taken to calling this the Willendorf effect, and once again we see it reinforced in many aspects of her life.

"You can't sue someone for calling them a cunt."

And we did actually start calling ourselves Martians.

There was a lot of reporting about this group, Doctors Without Borders, sounding the alarm and calling for aid and assistance.

So, Kat Hebron on Facebook, calling in from Vail: "How would developed nations manage the millions of climate migrants?"

I was getting outside my comfort zone, I was calling upon my resilience, and I was finding confidence in myself and my own decisions.

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