call the name of

Example Sentences

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You don't call out your name; you call the name of your friend.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 20, 2013

They didn't call the name of Ms. Zhou, who went back inside to sit with other Chinese workers at Choei Suisan, making origami baskets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2011

"And what do you call the name of it?" she asked.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

“It is contrary to order to call the name of a Senator,” said a distinguished gentleman.

From History of American Abolitionism by Fontaine, F. G. de

The time passed quickly, and before they 61 realized it they heard the conductor call the name of their own town.

From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Chapman, Allen