call to arms

Example Sentences

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A call to arms for big sisters everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Yuval immediately answered his country’s call to arms.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2024

It was a call to arms, a campaign strategy session, and—above all—an honest-to-God old-fashioned Pentecostal tent revival.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024

The result is sweeping and intimate, simultaneously a call to arms and a tribute to a place that contains almost as many tongues as speakers.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

It’s coming, it’s coming, like a bugle, a call to arms, like a wall falling, we can feel it like a heavy stone moving down, pulled down inside us, we think we will burst.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood