roll call
Example Sentences
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After conducting a roll call at the evacuation center, facility staff realized that two residents were unaccounted for and alerted the Sheriff’s Department, the report said.
From Los Angeles Times
Eastern on Wednesday, and a roll call could be tight.
From MarketWatch
Senate to urge streaming companies to begin offering customers the privately funded television service, which has provided nonpartisan gavel-to-gavel television coverage of congressional hearings and roll call votes for decades.
From Los Angeles Times
Government systems can fast-track billion-dollar projects, but until this much more affordable priority gets that kind of attention, the rules are just ink on paper, and the roll call of the dead just grows longer.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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