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

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

Just listen to this abbreviated list of luminous actors whose names have never been uttered as part of the early-morning roll call: Meg Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Grant, Glenn Ford, Donald Sutherland …

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025

After roll call and stretches, Coach West yells, “Four laps, everybody!” and blows her whistle to get us going.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée