• One of my favourite games is called Hangman.
• What worked best for us was a book called Choosing Colours by Kevin McCloud, of Grand Designs fame.
• The French system combining sports and studies is called "sport etude."

• One hasn't bothered to learn my name and just calls me ‘Rooney’.
• One of my co-workers still calls me the wrong name almost every time he sees me.
• She and Dennis had talked around the checkout counter and she'd gotten Dennis's last name wrong, calling him Lewis, and it stuck for some reason.

• Since then, he has entered what you might call a rough patch.
• Whether it is what you might call professional misconduct may be another matter.
• For five nights, we were on what you might call a floating hotel.

Synonyms

• After all, she had managed well enough the previous night, and calling a servant may draw attention to her presence.
• One afternoon in 1999, I was dozing when I heard my maternal grandmother calling me.
• Rose could hear Laurie calling her, but she didn't turn back.

• The birds kept calling as they shuffled about, and I tried my best to let the sound sink into my brain.
• So next time the sun is shining and the birds are calling, go outside to broaden your exercise routine.
• For one instant, he thought it was another monkey calling from one of the many trees nearby.

• The caller walks everyone through the dance moves, and continues calling the steps until they are familiar enough so that the dancers do not need to have them repeated.
• The Squire leads the side and calls the figures of the dances from within the set.

• A bid can only be overcalled by calling a lower card of the same suit as the original bid.
• Then the next player calls, and so on until all cards have been called.
• Betting then commences in a poker style manner, until the bet has been called.

• Let the creative juices flow when you pick out your props; I call dibs on the unicorn horn.
• To be honest, I'm stunned that Ned didn't call dibs first.
• When we were picked for the same team, I was quick to call shortstop.

• He went to a telephone box and called an ambulance.
• He said the Essex Air Ambulance was called but was unable to attend.
• The Welsh Air Ambulance was called to the scene, but was unable to land nearby because of woodland in the area.

Synonyms

• He was a major player in the story put before the court but was not called as a witness.
• In this case, the person to whom statements were made out of Court was not called as a witness.
• Once the parties have responded, witnesses will be called to give evidence at public hearings likely to begin next month.

• I was 19 years old when I first heard God calling me to religious life.
• They have been called to be witnesses for God.
• I personally find joy in the work I have been called to do.

• But rail users say any plans to stop trains calling at Oxenholme are unacceptable.
• Regular trains to Leeds also call at some local stops such as Garforth and New Pudsey.
• Now, no train calls at the station, which wears a deserted look.

• He would have got called for throwing 50 years ago and they wouldn't have changed the rules for him back then.
• Jones was first called for throwing against England at Melbourne in 1897-8.
• And they called bowlers for throwing as soon as the bending and straightening of the arm became obvious to the naked eye.

• Your votes are flooding in every day in their hundreds but, with many categories still too close to call, every vote really does count.
• They are opposed by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, making the final result of the vote too close to call.
• This election is too close to call.

• The captain who calls correctly on the toss of a coin will decide whether it's league or union in the first half.
• The captain was hoping for some luck with the toss, and after calling correctly he had no hesitation in reaching for his bowling boots.
• But he never found out about what the best option to call during a toss is.

• The place resounded with the calls of birds as they settled down for the night, even as people walked into the tastefully decorated frontyard.
• But he was unable to photograph them, or even record the birds' calls.
• The song of the mockingbird is actually a medley of the calls of many other birds.

Synonyms

• The bugle call sounded at retreat was first used in the French Army and dates back to the crusades.
• Like any ex-civilian, raw recruit Elvis Presley, the king of rock 'n' roll will be keeping time to ordinary bugle calls.
• His greatest music was made at a time of optimism in America, when the roar of the plains and the dissonant buzz of the cities still felt like the bugle calls of the new frontier.

• Square dances, with many of the calls in French, also became popular in the twentieth century.
• In traditional square dancing the timing of a call is fitted to the music.

• In some schedules a solo is worth more if you bid it over a previous call of misère or piek.
• Five and six are no longer available, as this player has already used all his opportunities for these calls.
• Then betting commences with raises, calls and folds as usual.

• At this time, all available vehicles were on other emergency calls and it was not possible to activate a crew.
• Another element in the exercise will be an emergency call to Church island to attend to campers who are in difficulty.
• She said that the nurse had been called away to another part of the home on an emergency call.

• There's quite a good market for recycled tyre materials, but there's little call for recycled electronics waste.
• We have no call for herbal or fruit tea around here.
• At the secondary level there was hardly any call for history teaching.

Synonyms

• From his first days as Pope he had a strong inner call to be a missionary.
• Our call to be an informal educator involves commitments to growth and change.
• She trained as an Infant School Teacher and it was while she was on a retreat for teachers that she felt the call to the religious life.

• They could barely resist the call of the forbidden, and the urge was overpowering.
• This government needs the guts to resist the call of the past, and govern for the future.
• She accepted, but it was not long before the call of the great outdoors became irresistible once more.

Synonyms

• Once you know what to look for, making the right call will start to come naturally.
• They have to make a call in a split second.
• Become fully informed consumers, knowledgeable enough to challenge doctors who make questionable diagnostic calls.

• Put options should increase in value and calls should drop as the stock price falls.
• The rule for creating synthetics is that the strike price and expiration date of the calls and puts must be identical.