Example sentences for: calls

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

  • Oldman, barking out the hysterical howls that serve as lingua franca for all cinema terrorists, calls the White House and tells Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close) that he'll kill one hostage every half hour until Radek is released.

  • The undersea sci-fi adventure is dismissed as "another variation of the same old supernatural junk" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Critics deplore the film's pretentious pronouncements about man's place in the universe and say Levinson is "out of his element" trying to build suspense (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls the stars' performances irresistible and salutes Levinson for tackling a new genre.

  • While Allen calls the wedding, which makes him Farrow's son-in-law, a "wonderful thing," Farrow family spokesman Dr. Stephen Herman, a child psychiatrist, is quoted in the Globe as denouncing it: "rude, nasty and most of all, it's a reflection of his own narcissism."

  • Morgan for the past 15 years, and keeping up only from a distance with what one of Lewis' characters calls "the greatest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet."

  • But the series of subprime loans that took them down what he calls "the slippery slope" date to 1998, when he was 82.


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