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Example sentences for "calling"

Lexicographically close words:
calligrapher; calligraphers; calligraphic; calligraphy; callin; callinge; callings; calliopsis; callipers; callis
  1. Nor let them gain anything by crying and wailing, by calling upon your fathers' tombs and their own desolate condition.

  2. Calling the Syracusans together, he told them that they must man as many ships as possible, and try their hand at a sea-fight, by which he hoped to achieve an advantage in the war not unworthy of the risk.

  3. And it was quite certain that calling a 'General Assembly' at once would defeat the very ends which such bodies are designed to serve.

  4. By merely calling on them to support me I could have had his knife and thy revolver with ease and honesty in strict accordance with the law.

  5. In the middle of the gate, behind some iron bars, a wretched man stood shaking a tin can, in which some small coins rattled, and calling on the passers-by for alms for the poor prisoners.

  6. When it drew on toward evening, Mesullam was wakened from his state of all-absorbing grief by a cheery voice calling him.

  7. To another it might not have meant so much, perhaps, but for her it meant that she could devote herself to the calling which all her life she had longed to follow.

  8. But Abbot Hans upbraided them for using force and forbade their calling for help.

  9. Since this hope had miscarried, he sat hour after hour in a queer position, and mourned, with his long arms stretched upward and his head thrown far back, as though he were calling upon heaven for justice.

  10. He was waving a newspaper and calling in a loud voice: "The Pope is better.

  11. The people are calling out with all their might and stamping on the ice.

  12. Then Gudmund told her of how he had found a pretext for calling at the Juryman's at Aelvakra and had met Hildur.

  13. The air is filled with the calling of the birds; and each successive shot rattles away with its echo among the silent hills.

  14. Let us not be content with calling ourselves sinners.

  15. She was altogether herself by day, gave no sign of emotion, and was as merry as possible throughout the journey, calling out to Dermot airily from the platform that she should send him a present of sour krout from Baden.

  16. People were calling on us, and we were evidently being taken into our proper place.

  17. However, he did startle the poor old parish clergyman effectually by calling on him to publish the banns of marriage between Dermot Edward St. Glear Tracy and Lucy Percy Alison, both residing in this parish.

  18. This he allowed, calling it a generous feeling, if they were worthy of it.

  19. When Pierce had likewise stripped down and taken his place at the oars, Broad grumbled: "The idea of calling me 'Lucky'!

  20. The idea of us calling ourselves wiseacres and doing circus stunts like this!

  21. He succeeded in finding Frank by the sound of his breathing, and he was pawing at him and wildly calling his name when at his back a match was struck.

  22. He forced his companion to lower himself upon the sled, then swung it toward the river-bank, calling upon his own lead dog to follow.

  23. Where enrolment is a matter of individual choice, there is a better chance of entrance resulting in the adoption of the life as a calling to be followed; and this disposition can be encouraged by the offering of suitable inducements.

  24. The ideal is respectable, certainly; in view of the concert of the powers, in the interest of their own repose, to coerce Greece and the Cretans, we may perhaps refrain from calling it noble.

  25. The guys in the front were explaining it to the guys in the back and calling Willitts names I couldn't put down in these refined pages.

  26. She made a rush for the motor, climbing in, cowering down, calling on the names that meant safety: "Mummy!

  27. Over on the bluff, calling on some people.

  28. I was down there, and I took the liberty of calling on Mr. Adister, and I had a very kind reception.

  29. We're wash in a hog-trough for Father Saturn to devour; big chief and suckling babe, we all go into it, calling it life!

  30. The Professor realized the situation, and immediately reloaded, and calling after Harry, told him that he had a charged weapon.

  31. Take the simple act of one lady calling on another.

  32. I piled them on a little hillock, and calling the attention of a neighboring Berkshire to the pile, had the gratification to see him address himself to their mastication, with evident gout.

  33. Sitting in the seat and looking on the scenes of youth; calling back its feelings and thinking over its thoughts; is, we may suppose, seldom pleasing to manhood.

  34. We feel justified in calling on the clock for an account of its works; and, if no minutes have been kept, we shall leave the public to judge of the entire matter.

  35. This was a man who, according to the custom of the country, proclaimed his calling in the public way.

  36. Others shook hands with the conqueror, calling him the pride of the country.

  37. Calling his chief eunuch, he ordered him to prepare apartments for her worthy of her beauty; to treat her with kindness, and to be attentive to all her wants.

  38. So, calling the chief officer of his police, he confided the affair to that master of intrigue, recommending him to be diligent and expeditious.

  39. Yet would we say, what every heart approveth, Our Father's will, Calling to him the dear ones whom he loveth, Is mercy still.

  40. To the voices of hope that are calling you Open the door of your heart.

  41. Poetry is of the very highest value for the inspiration and guidance of life, for calling out the emotions and opening up spiritual visions.

  42. And a third treasure calling for special mention is an Irish vellum MS.

  43. The Papal Government repressed grumbling as a nuisance, and the people consequently took a delight in annoying the authorities by grumbling in secret places and calling themselves conspirators.

  44. It was strange that, while granting him everything else, people had never thought of calling him a man of remarkable intelligence.

  45. Some one suggested calling you to settle a dispute, and he went before I could stop him.

  46. Del Ferice or any other man would have been quite justified in calling me out for it--but it was not for that.

  47. The fact is, that I have just taken a man by the throat and otherwise insulted him, by calling him a dog.

  48. You had better prepare an answer, for you can hardly inform Donna Tullia and her set that I have been calling them a parcel of--weak and ill-advised people.

  49. He saw himself wedded to Corona in less than a fortnight, removed from the sphere of society and of all his troubles, living for a space alone with her in his ancestral home, calling her, at last, his wife.

  50. He had begun life by boldly calling himself "Il conte del Ferice.

  51. I do not see how you can avoid calling such community a republic, seeing that there was an equal partition of wealth; and defining it as a democratic one, seeing that they all called each other brethren.

  52. She believed Donna Tullia to be insane, perhaps dangerous, and she calmly proceeded to protect herself by calling for assistance.

  53. There was little need of the dear grandmama calling softly through that tender blue flower-- "Vergiss mein nicht, mein Engel Albert!

  54. He had had reason to fear that his right to sit in that lofty seat would be disputed--that the old Duke of Sussex might come hobbling up to the throne, calling out, "I object!

  55. I have read a little story of her calling on him at his place, on the Isle of Wight.

  56. I see nothing very note-worthy in this, except the fact, honorable to humanity, of a borrowed umbrella being promptly returned, the owner calling for it.

  57. I never would have allowed myself to be forced to adopt a calling which I disliked and for which I was not fit.

  58. But when he clasped her closer, calling her his 'dear little betrothed,' Gerlinda started and grew very pale.

  59. Wehlau shrugged his shoulders with all the arrogance of the scholar who holds no calling equal in rank to his own, and by whom Art is regarded, more or less, as a plaything.

  60. You can't wound me, either, by retaliating, and calling me a dependant.

  61. Like the gambler that always is calling for fresh cards, it looks very like a suspicion of foul play.

  62. It's an everlasting calling to prayers, day and night, there.

  63. The other laughed, and after a brief pause, said, "People are in the habit of calling me fortunate, so that you must not suppose my case to be the rule.

  64. But at length curiosity prevailed, and she and her companions explored to their heart's content, and tasted and examined everything, running hither and thither in high glee, and calling merrily to each other.

  65. And he and his wife were so busy calling Ingibjorg all sorts of names for her bad behaviour, that they never noticed Kisa stealing into a dark corner, and upsetting a whole bag of salt into the great pot before the fire.

  66. So on she went, now and then calling back to the young man in the darkness.

  67. The princess of course ran after it at once, and she was stooping down to feel if it was hidden in the long grass, when she heard a voice calling her: 'Ingibjorg!

  68. Then Ratibor heard with surprise that the bird was indeed calling him by name.

  69. She lost no time in calling her husband, who was still lying in bed.

  70. Déroulède set his teeth, and made no protest, calling up every fibre of moral strength within him, to aid him in submitting to this indignity.

  71. She heard the indictment, heard Tinville's speech and the calling of the witnesses.

  72. From within the cemetery gates, there was suddenly heard the sound of a sea-mew calling thrice to its mate.

  73. Oh, please don't get up--Zaidee wasn't calling you.

  74. The typometer disaster had proved as bad as, and worse than, he had feared, but he was working retrieval with splendid effort, calling all his personal magnetism into play where it was possible.

  75. Etiquette demands that a man use his team, even if calling at a house ten rods away.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambition; appellation; appointment; art; aspiration; baptism; basis; beck; bid; bidding; business; call; calling; career; cause; challenge; christening; consecration; consideration; convocation; craft; definition; denomination; designation; duty; election; employment; evocation; game; goal; ground; handicraft; ideal; identification; indent; induction; inspiration; installation; institution; intention; investiture; invitation; invite; invocation; job; lifework; line; lodestar; mainspring; matter; metier; mission; naming; nod; nomination; number; occupation; order; ordination; practice; preferment; presentation; principle; profession; province; pursuit; racket; reason; requisition; sake; score; source; specialization; specialty; spring; summons; task; trade; visitation; vocation; walk; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    calling attention; calling them; calling themselves; calling upon