call down
Example Sentences
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"The ambulance didn't go to the address because the emergency medical advisor, thinking it was an abandoned call, closed the call down," Mrs Jevons said.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
“So I freaked and I call down the front desk, I go, ‘You gotta call 911!’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
But those usually had relatively evident functions: to call down the favor of a god, or to assert a noble pedigree, or to show off a new wife.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
But I’m less certain on when it becomes our individual duty to call down that hand ourselves.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
The morning was physically tiring, but the nervous strain, the fear that my actions would call down upon my head a storm of curses, was even more damaging.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
