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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PCMAG, 1 May 2024
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
Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
Callender, who might be called up by the U.S. national team for Copa America, had stressed in the lead up to Wednesday’s game that Miami’s defense needed to do better after managing just two clean sheets all season.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
Leiter was called up in part due to the litany of injuries hitting the Texas Rangers rotation, which is currently missing Dane Dunning, Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom, Cody Bradford, Nathan Eovaldi and Josh Sborz.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
Harris, 27, was called up earlier this month and pitched 5 1/3 innings against Texas on May 7.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
In response, state troopers surrounded the building, the Arizona Board of Regents demanded the students be expelled, and the Legislature asked the governor to call up the National Guard, Gutierrez said.
—Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
Weill called up Prince and invited him to the Adirondacks for the Fourth of July weekend in 2003, intending to offer up the job.
—Emma Goldberg Sarah Mollo-Christensen Tanya Pérez Sharon Kearney, New York Times, 9 May 2024
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
Noun
But PreSonus is catching up, with additions such as Track Presets, which stack commonly used instruments or plug-in chains and all their settings together for call-up with a single click.
—PCMAG, 1 May 2024
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
Verb
The Dodgers activated outfielder Jason Heyward and called up former top infield prospect Miguel Vargas.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
Callender, who might be called up by the U.S. national team for Copa America, had stressed in the lead up to Wednesday’s game that Miami’s defense needed to do better after managing just two clean sheets all season.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
Leiter was called up in part due to the litany of injuries hitting the Texas Rangers rotation, which is currently missing Dane Dunning, Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom, Cody Bradford, Nathan Eovaldi and Josh Sborz.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
Harris, 27, was called up earlier this month and pitched 5 1/3 innings against Texas on May 7.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
In response, state troopers surrounded the building, the Arizona Board of Regents demanded the students be expelled, and the Legislature asked the governor to call up the National Guard, Gutierrez said.
—Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
Weill called up Prince and invited him to the Adirondacks for the Fourth of July weekend in 2003, intending to offer up the job.
—Emma Goldberg Sarah Mollo-Christensen Tanya Pérez Sharon Kearney, New York Times, 9 May 2024
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
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