calling down
Example Sentences
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They had ridden together as teenagers, and, along with a few others, unearthed old rosters of riders from Flintridge and began calling down the list, asking whoever picked up what she had experienced.
From New York Times • May 29, 2018
Even in that state, that guy couldn't believe the Falcons' play calling down the stretch.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 7, 2017
The centerpiece is a story about calling down at a fancy hotel to complain that the laundry he dropped off wasn’t ready when it was supposed to be, only for housekeeping to respond incredibly rudely.
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2016
Taylor and his team were calling down to Tampa on a weekly basis to see whether there was any movement on the Special Operations Command contract.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2013
He imagined her as, say, Mrs. Cobb, swooping out from behind her picket fence with eyes aflame, calling down the turbine perflant upon a minister’s son who threw rocks.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
