call to account
Example Sentences
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They don’t return for a bow, as if this had not been a performance but a call to account.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021
How something can be prideful and at the same time call to account the nation that you’re writing about.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2020
“I mean, power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive,” Bush said, “and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2018
Bosnia is a country without a reckoning, a call to account.
From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2016
"One of ours; but an enemy whom I shall yet call to account, and till that happens it is not proper for me to speak of it."
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
