call attention

Example Sentences

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But in this connection, I feel obliged to call attention to an unjustly neglected book issued in 2015 by an obscure Ohio publisher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“Right from the beginning I was like, ‘This is more Kleber’s temperature, this character that needs to be hidden, that needs to protect his kid, that can’t call attention to himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

“The new girl didn’t knock, or do anything to call attention to herself,” she thinks, summing up a fresh hire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

In that vein, there are two people we’d call attention to as proper leaders during a week when leadership was needed.

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2025

I felt a kind of joy and hope in the thought that one white man was willing to use his own money to call attention to the injustice we were facing.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals