call the name of

Example Sentences

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You don't call out your name; you call the name of your friend.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 20, 2013

They didn't call the name of Ms. Zhou, who went back inside to sit with other Chinese workers at Choei Suisan, making origami baskets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2011

"And what do you call the name of it?" she asked.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I can't call the name of the town, just now.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration

And what did he call the name of his native city?

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm