clarion call

noun

: a strong request for something to happen

—usually singular

He used his speech to sound a clarion call for affordable health care.

the leader's clarion call to action

Examples of clarion call in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Somewhere in the heated mist hovered the howls of Albert Ayler and the clarion call of his brother Donald’s trumpet, followed by the Ornette Coleman Quartet, saluting him with joyous cacophony. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026

One moderate congressman is sounding a centrist clarion call. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 6 July 2026

This would seem to be a clarion call for the president of the United States, and a populist one at that. — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026

The health consequences are deeply troubling and should be a clarion call to all of us that change is needed. — Jean Case, Time, 14 May 2026

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