call attention

Example Sentences

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But in this connection, I feel obliged to call attention to an unjustly neglected book issued in 2015 by an obscure Ohio publisher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

But he kept quiet, he said, because he didn’t want to call attention to his age.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

“The new girl didn’t knock, or do anything to call attention to herself,” she thinks, summing up a fresh hire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

But what we can do is call attention to the forms of nonviolent resistance that challenge our prevalent culture of rage and alienation.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025

In honor of Miss Barrie, my eighth-grade teacher, I’d like to call attention to the quotation above: ex ovo omnia.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides