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Example sentences for "would call"

  • What we would call a creek in Canada is called a river in Flanders.

  • Around each group of farm buildings there is what we would call a moat, the biggest ditch on the farm.

  • Immediately behind our line ran Strombeek River, (we would call it a creek).

  • No knowledge of what we would call a large crowd.

  • We were in what I would call line of battle, on the face of the hill.

  • It was not what I would call a shower of stones.

  • I could not recognize any man, but they were what I would call roughs--hard cases, desperate men, most of them.

  • And now methinks I see Uncle Labourn making as if he would call us to the house, and there are the horses coming to the door.

  • She loved him indeed with all the naivete, and invoked him with the simple confidence of a child; and the last weeks of her life were almost entirely devoted to earnest entreaties that he would call her to himself.

  • It is very common with Clement's modern critics, when making what our French allies would call "an appreciation" him, to set him down as a solemn trifler.

  • Well, I couldn't remember what I wanted, so I said I would call again.

  • Learning that he was in Honolulu, laid up at his hotel, the party sent word that they would call on him next morning.

  • So, saying he would call later to see his uncle, he started again to find the widow's cottage, and his cousin.

  • But I was determined now to see somebody and make out something; so I left my card, and a message that, as I was leaving town next day, I would call again.

  • Conway therefore said that he would call again, and on returning found Clara alone.

  • Then he wrote a short note presenting his compliments to Mrs Proudie, and saying that he would call at the palace at eleven o'clock on the following morning.

  • He would call at Otranto in case someone should come across to pilot him to Vissarion.

  • If I was put to define Modesty, I would call it The Reflection of an Ingenuous Mind, either when a Man has committed an Action for which he censures himself, or fancies that he is exposed to the Censure of others.

  • My eldest Sister, who, with her good Will, would call me Miss as long as I live, must be married before me, they say.

  • As far as you can recall, there was nothing peculiar or particularly outstanding about this boy that would call notice to him to distinguish him from other boys his age?

  • So then he would call in to find out if anybody had called from the employment agency.

  • He had what I would call a foghorn voice, and he didn't seem to make any effort at all to control it.

  • As soon as he had accomplished his errand he set his face towards the vicarage, for he made up his mind suddenly that he would call on the Middletons, and perhaps on Mrs. Cheyne.

  • He would call at the Friary again and see Mrs. Challoner, and find out more of this strange matter; but as to talking it over with Mattie, he quite shrugged his shoulders as he swung open the green door.

  • Lots more people came to luncheon, and though it is in the wilds of the country, what we would call, they were all in lovely afternoon dresses, as if it were town and the height of the season.

  • I thought,' he repeated, 'that I would call.

  • It was gone--and he would call it his and pretend to be the father.

  • I am, of course, only anxious to be of service to you and to your brother, and so I thought I would call.

  • I immediately sent an express to the curate to inform him of the day on which I would call with a friend of mine whom I wished to introduce to his niece.

  • After dinner, we repaired to his study, and he handed me one hundred Roman crowns, and Don Antonio's present, and assured me that I would be most welcome whenever I would call to take a cup of chocolate with him.

  • I asked Stephano to induce the man to leave my acknowledgement of the debt in the hands of a certain merchant whom we both knew, and that I would call there to discharge the amount.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would call" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    vast number; would afford; would allow; would become; would call; would cost; would desire; would drive; would endeavour; would explain; would fight; would follow; would happen; would have you know; would observe; would play; would refer; would remember; would sell; would sing; would soon; would take; would talk; would try; would turn; would willingly