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Example sentences for "roll call"

  • The above action was repeated except that both Houses defeated without a roll call.

  • Individuals petitioned for Municipal suffrage for women taxpayers, which was referred to the next Legislature without a roll call.

  • In German camps it is forbidden to sit or lie on one's bed during the day, unless one has reported sick at roll call.

  • His sentence was lengthened by some days on the charge of answering his wrong name at a roll call on arrival at Osnabrück, but as he was quite unable to stand this was obviously a fabrication.

  • Roll call: How shall we replenish the preserve closet in winter?

  • A club that is doing practical work is following this varied program: Roll call: Kitchen appliances and conveniences.

  • Next morning, at roll call, each colonel spoke to his regiment.

  • I left him getting up his load and hurrying off to roll call.

  • Roll call followed, with the moment's full pause after names that were not answered to.

  • Keene and unanimously adopted by the camp on roll call P.

  • We were ordered to hitch up, as we could hear the drums beat for roll call on the right of us; supposed to be Logan's Division.

  • Orders given at roll call in the morning to be ready to march at 7 A.

  • Took my team this morning and reported at roll call, having been off duty thirteen days.

  • These are lazy fellows who will not get up in the morning in time to answer to their names at roll call.

  • The custom in camp is to put on extra duty all who fail to answer at roll call.

  • Anon the drums begin to sound the signal for the morning roll call, and now the scene is changed.

  • He was only in England on a short furlough from Canada, and did not see my "Roll Call.

  • The King lent my good old "Roll Call," and the whole thing was a success.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    called holy; careful examination; cedar wood; educated woman; first cause; great party; healthy animals; her son; her words; horizontal plane; parochial schools; passing good; plaster cast; roll along; roll each; roll over; roll thin; rolled oats; rolled over; rolling prairie; rolling stock; sacred character; several days; sixth chapter; spiritual things; under which