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

The Times often published the lists of their names and regiments, like a phantom roll call: the 121st Ohio, the 11th Indiana, the 29th Michigan, the 17th Kansas, the 10th Wisconsin.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

In September this year at the United Nations in New York, President Biden led a global roll call of leaders urging restraint between Israel and Hezbollah.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

After the roll call, I never saw the man with the other tattoo again.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz