roll call

Example Sentences

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The effect is as interesting as reading a grade-school roll call.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Eastern on Wednesday, and a roll call could be tight.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

Even if he were right, though, the rapid-fire historical roll call of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” deserves our respect as a crucial artifact of a pre-internet America.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

At morning roll call, the prisoners could not see one another, but they could hear each person state their full name and home village.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

At 6:00 in the evening there was another roll call, then we marched back to our various sleeping barracks.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom