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Example sentences for "you call"

  • But am I to suppose that your Lordship gives the brightness the title of a Dimension, and that what we call "bright" you call "high"?

  • You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an infinite number of Circles, of size varying from a Point to a Circle of thirteen inches in diameter, one placed on the top of the other.

  • Oh, if you call it buying," said Thorpe, and then softened his words with an apologetic laugh.

  • The craze, as you call it, was all on a business basis.

  • You call him 'Broker'--and that doesn't mean anything to me.

  • She laughed aloud as she did so, and said something over her shoulder to a companion who was not visible.

  • Poor old chappie--he needs all he can get.

  • He bent his eyes upon her, and noted with a controlled exaltation how her glance in turn deferred to his, and fluttered beneath it, and shrank away.

  • What kind of justice do you call this, to blame me for some words that a tomfool of a madcap lass has written down upon a piece of paper?

  • Do you call her by that name to her face, Mr. Balfour?

  • And now we come to this cause of Mr. Balfour's, as you call it.

  • And what do you call divine, I mean godly?

  • By the bye, what do you call Bible in your tongue, or, indeed, book of any kind?

  • Daub as you call it,' said my friend, smiling, 'I would not part with it for the best piece of Rafael.

  • And while you sat in your hack, watching the play, as you call it, the other man marched in and bagged your sixty thousand dollars?

  • They married very early, if you call that a hardship, as girls do in our Western country.

  • I shall see him personally to-day, and if you call to-morrow at ten I hope to have news for you.

  • Don't you call no names," replied Perkins.

  • Don't you call no names," panted Perkins again.

  • Do you really believe now that I have not a grasp or a 'seizin,' as you call it, upon you, and that you can manage to escape me for any foolish considerations of bourgeois vanity?

  • I used so little craft, as you call it, that I've just come from your house, there!

  • And do you call a man your friend whom you have only known for eight or ten days?

  • Or, as you are a Corsican, that you had been unable to resist the desire of making a 'stiff,' as you call it.

  • And pray what do you call such an action?

  • You call yourself in Paris the Count of Monte Cristo; in Italy, Sinbad the Sailor; in Malta, I forget what.

  • The tenth, a tumbler of aromatic agoloch (you call it lignum aloes) edged with Cyprian gold, after the Azemine make.

  • Why do you call it my allowance, and never let me spend it?

  • On account of which, and at the same time to oblige a--do you call it, in your business, customer or client?

  • I don't know what it is you call by that name, or where it is, or who possesses it.

  • I thought you would do all that fussy part and take care of the pounds, as you call them.

  • Surely you would not be outdone by the 'old fellows,' as you call them, or be less obedient to little Mum than they were to Rose.

  • I thought you had a 'deal of pluck,' as you call it.

  • I don't know how he's 'to do', as you call it.

  • And I don't suppose you would refuse me even if I were hard up, as you call it.

  • My five-and-twenty thousand pounds, as you call it, would not go very far.

  • The seat, as you call it, is not there for his gratification or for yours.

  • The idea of conquering people, as you call it, by feeding them, is to me abominable.

  • You call it a priest's view; I think it is only the view of a man of honour.

  • These young women are 'doing their bit,' as you call it; bringing le plaisir to all these who are serving their country.

  • IS dead at the moment - what do you call that?

  • What do you call this, that I am going to tell you?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you 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:
    sound came; through many; you happen; you knew; you know anything about; you know nothing about; you might; you need; you now; you propose; you talk; you tell; you that; you wouldn; young courtier; young doctor; young friend; young leaves; young squire; young student; your daughter; your honor; your ladyship; your letter; your lordship; your obedient