on call
Example Sentences
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They show the arrival of Alan Jones, the lead detective on call that night.
"Battlefield" challenges its rival with smaller multiplayer maps than usual and a "battle royale" mode where players eliminate each other one by one, similar to a popular mode found on "Call of Duty".
From Barron's
It wasn’t just the activists on call — block after block was ready.
From Los Angeles Times
The couple was on call for a small but fast-growing rodent who hissed when annoyed and cried when lonely:
This was his way of protecting the imagination, of keeping it “on call,” as he once said of his sparse routine in his home in Litchfield County, Conn.: “I’m like a doctor and it’s an emergency room. And I’m the emergency.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
