roll call

Example Sentences

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The effect is as interesting as reading a grade-school roll call.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Eastern on Wednesday, and a roll call could be tight.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

At morning roll call, the prisoners could not see one another, but they could hear each person state their full name and home village.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

In the first roll call, the professor mispronounced her last name as “CHIP-uh-tee.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

Tomorrow after roll call, I could disappear into the barracks instead of showing up for my job.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz