Words similar to call

Example sentences for: call

How can you use “call” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The transcriptions are, mercifully, what phoneticians call “broad,” which provide the basic information needed to be able to reproduce the pronunciation, as compared with “narrow,” in which detailed phonetic features are reflected that are useful for specialists but clutter up the field for ordinary users.
Most of our (yuppie) friends have their kids call my wife and me by our first names.
In current American usage, the term resembles what we call kidding: that is, making fun of someone or some thing in a frivolous manner, such as in the obligatory banter at roasts of famous people.
Or borrowed company funds that we had every intention of returning, so there was really no reason to call the police.
Hence John Skelton's early 16th-century poem Phyllyp Sparowe , a lament by a young lady for her pet sparrow killed by a cat, with the affecting lines: Nothynge it auayled/To call Phylyp agayne,/Whom Gyb our cat hath slayne.