Example Sentences

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“I have always liked political conventions: the consultations, the debates, the votes, the roll-calls and other things. I’ve lived with it my whole life and I’ve liked it.”

From New York Times • May 4, 2020

Anti-violence activists have been invited to speak before police roll-calls.

From MSNBC • Aug. 7, 2014

Musically, West plays against his story of abuse and regret by setting it to hyperkinetic percussion and a galvanizing horn chart—the kind of high-drama fanfare that typically heralds starting-lineup roll-calls at NBA playoff games.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2010

No record roll-calls, under the rules, are made in committee of the whole.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the 4th of July, the rebels gave us four roll-calls in the morning.

From History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers by Blakeslee, B. F.