1
: an order to report for military service
2
: a baseball player brought up to a major league team from the minor leagues
called up; calling up; calls up
1
: to summon together (as for a united effort)
call up all his forces for the attack
2
: to bring to mind : evoke
3
: to summon before an authority
4
a
: to summon for active military duty
b
: to bring up from a minor league to a major league baseball team
5
: to bring forward for consideration or action
6
: to retrieve from the memory of a computer especially for display and user interaction
Examples of call-up in a Sentence
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
Between that and Pages’ own impressive play this month, the pathway toward an early call-up was suddenly paved.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
The call-up age has been lowered from 27 to 25 but other parts of a mobilization bill are still struggling to pass through the Ukrainian parliament.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
Hayden Birdsong, the organization’s top right-handed pitching prospect, will start the season at Double-A Richmond and could make a case for a major-league call-up by the end of the year.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
That news prompted the Supreme Court to instruct the government, as soon as the deadline passes, to suspend special educational subsidies that support seminary students if those students have failed to answer their military call-ups.
—Johnatan Reiss, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Miller pitched one game in Double-A before getting the call-up to Triple-A Las Vegas.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
Late-season call-up Evan Carter looks like the real deal, and top prospect Wyatt Langford is ready to provide more thunder.
—Staff and Wire Reports, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Mar. 2024
Some observers believe Putin would have to wait until after the election to take the potentially unpopular step of another big call-up.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
Decades later, the Soviet Union became the first country to call up women for combat, to compensate for the millions of casualties suffered in the first year of the Nazi invasion.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 4 May 2024
On April 26, the Marlins called up right-hander Anthony Maldonado due to Luzardo’s injury.
—Ethan Mannello, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
The Giants considered calling up Mason Black, who has a minuscule ERA in Triple-A but instead recalled Daulton Jeffries to be the bulk arm.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
The protests stopped in a show of unity, and many demonstrators were called up to fight.
—Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
Greene has filed a procedural tool known as a motion to vacate to oust Johnson, but the Georgia Republican declined to call up a vote before lawmakers left town, giving the speaker and his allies a short reprieve.
—USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
The state could call up to 14 witnesses, and the defense could call up to 30.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
Top pitching prospect Landon Knack is also expected to be called up this week, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who is unauthorized to speak publicly, to either start or pitch in a bulk relief role.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Noun
About Royals call-up Will Klein Klein, 24, was selected by the Royals in the fifth-round of the 2020 MLB Draft.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
Between that and Pages’ own impressive play this month, the pathway toward an early call-up was suddenly paved.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
The call-up age has been lowered from 27 to 25 but other parts of a mobilization bill are still struggling to pass through the Ukrainian parliament.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
Hayden Birdsong, the organization’s top right-handed pitching prospect, will start the season at Double-A Richmond and could make a case for a major-league call-up by the end of the year.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
That news prompted the Supreme Court to instruct the government, as soon as the deadline passes, to suspend special educational subsidies that support seminary students if those students have failed to answer their military call-ups.
—Johnatan Reiss, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Miller pitched one game in Double-A before getting the call-up to Triple-A Las Vegas.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
Late-season call-up Evan Carter looks like the real deal, and top prospect Wyatt Langford is ready to provide more thunder.
—Staff and Wire Reports, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Mar. 2024
Some observers believe Putin would have to wait until after the election to take the potentially unpopular step of another big call-up.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
Verb
Since being called up on April 16, the 23-year-old is batting .333 with three home runs and 11 RBIs.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
Decades later, the Soviet Union became the first country to call up women for combat, to compensate for the millions of casualties suffered in the first year of the Nazi invasion.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 4 May 2024
On April 26, the Marlins called up right-hander Anthony Maldonado due to Luzardo’s injury.
—Ethan Mannello, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
The Giants considered calling up Mason Black, who has a minuscule ERA in Triple-A but instead recalled Daulton Jeffries to be the bulk arm.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
The protests stopped in a show of unity, and many demonstrators were called up to fight.
—Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
Greene has filed a procedural tool known as a motion to vacate to oust Johnson, but the Georgia Republican declined to call up a vote before lawmakers left town, giving the speaker and his allies a short reprieve.
—USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
The state could call up to 14 witnesses, and the defense could call up to 30.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
Top pitching prospect Landon Knack is also expected to be called up this week, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who is unauthorized to speak publicly, to either start or pitch in a bulk relief role.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
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