call down
Example Sentences
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If the alarm rang outside business hours, someone would need to call down a list of seismologists until someone agreed to come in.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 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
They have also refused to call down their protest until the government addressed their concerns.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 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
“Where’s the crew? Did he call down demons to devour them? What happened to this ship?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
