calling

Example Sentences

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After 9/11, Enchassi felt a calling to become an imam.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

Her mother sounded "alarmed", she says, by neighbours calling to say "something terrible" had happened.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

In a speech calling on the Fed to shrink its balance sheet, Miran said that the economic effects of balance-sheet reduction “can be offset with a lower federal-funds rate.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

She concluded on a more serious note, calling the Geffen Galleries a “masterpiece of public art.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

I was walking along; calling, looking, and listening for monkeys when all at once I smelled something.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls