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

Now I will tell you the names of these letters," he said, "and when I call the name of each one, you can point to it with the little stick.

From The Japanese Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch

Then they proceed to call the name of each one who is present at this exercise.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Succeeding he must tag the goal and call the name of the player observed.

From School, Church, and Home Games by Draper, George Orrin