call off

Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.

It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.

"I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.