call to arms
Example Sentences
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This report was a call to arms from the BBC for a better funding model.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
A call to arms for big sisters everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
It was a call to arms, a campaign strategy session, and—above all—an honest-to-God old-fashioned Pentecostal tent revival.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
The result is sweeping and intimate, simultaneously a call to arms and a tribute to a place that contains almost as many tongues as speakers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
It’s coming, it’s coming, like a bugle, a call to arms, like a wall falling, we can feel it like a heavy stone moving down, pulled down inside us, we think we will burst.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
