see also at one's beck and call
British
Examples of beck in a Sentence
Noun (2)
when we were lads, we raced our toy boats in the narrow beck that bordered the lane
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
Valet is at your beck and call and switching dinner reservations or nabbing hard-to-get ones are a non-issue.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
Flashover typically causes severe burns, particularly on the face, beck and upper limbs, often combined with critical inhalation injures from radiant heat and superheated gases.
—Kara Fox, CNN Money, 2 Jan. 2026
As far as Border Patrol’s next move, Banks said his agents stand ready but remain at ICE’s beck and call.
—Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2025
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Noun
At his beck and call is The Assassin (Anthony Ramos, flexing his magnetism, particularly in a monologue about the singer Christopher Cross).
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
Valet is at your beck and call and switching dinner reservations or nabbing hard-to-get ones are a non-issue.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
Flashover typically causes severe burns, particularly on the face, beck and upper limbs, often combined with critical inhalation injures from radiant heat and superheated gases.
—Kara Fox, CNN Money, 2 Jan. 2026
As far as Border Patrol’s next move, Banks said his agents stand ready but remain at ICE’s beck and call.
—Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2025
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“Beck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beck. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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