Example sentences for: called

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

  • Hair of the head is at times called by a different word from that for hair elsewhere on the body (Welsh gwallt vs. blew , for example).

  • The question called for a photo caption, not a headline.

  • Editorialists grumbled that Clinton had come off as a wimp and a patsy; Sino-pundits called the shortsighted, conniving American president no match for the farsighted, conniving Chinese.

  • Sometimes, when I see this comedian's bit rerun on cable, I imagine Pep Strauss"--a hit man in the hit-man organization called Murder Inc.--"entering stage left and cutting him belly to chin."

  • George McDonald, another longtime homeless activist, filed suit against the coalition on the grounds that officials of the organization had engaged in "harassment and physical interference" of his rival program, called Ready, Willing & Able.


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