call to arms

Example Sentences

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"When we saw the call to arms on social media we knew our overseas members would be under threat," Patricia McKeown from Unison told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

A call to arms for big sisters everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

It was a call to arms, a campaign strategy session, and—above all—an honest-to-God old-fashioned Pentecostal tent revival.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024

The result is sweeping and intimate, simultaneously a call to arms and a tribute to a place that contains almost as many tongues as speakers.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

It’s coming, it’s coming, like a bugle, a call to arms, like a wall falling, we can feel it like a heavy stone moving down, pulled down inside us, we think we will burst.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood