roll call
noun
1
: the act or an instance of calling off a list of names (as for checking attendance)
also
: a time for a roll call
2
Examples of roll call in a Sentence
Two students missed roll call.
the roll call of the fallen was read aloud at the memorial service
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That roll call of managers underlines Leeds’ improvement between Byram’s departure to east London and the club’s Marcelo Bielsa-led Premier League promotion in 2020.
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 9 May 2025
The cast is like a roll call of Next-Gen Hollywood circa 2025: There’s Will Poulter (Midsommar, Death of a Unicorn), running point on the whole operation, and Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things, George Harrison in the upcoming Beatles’ biopics) as a petty officer keeping watch on the perimeter.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Over time, what had begun as a personal project acquired the weight of a semi-official document — a roll call of the dead.
—Mark Harris, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
This grand avenue was modeled after 19th-century French engineer Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards, and it’s lined with a roll call of ornate late 19th and early 20th-century architecture, a historic neighborhood second to none in the United States.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 9 May 2025
The cast is like a roll call of Next-Gen Hollywood circa 2025: There’s Will Poulter (Midsommar, Death of a Unicorn), running point on the whole operation, and Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things, George Harrison in the upcoming Beatles’ biopics) as a petty officer keeping watch on the perimeter.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Over time, what had begun as a personal project acquired the weight of a semi-official document — a roll call of the dead.
—Mark Harris, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
This grand avenue was modeled after 19th-century French engineer Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards, and it’s lined with a roll call of ornate late 19th and early 20th-century architecture, a historic neighborhood second to none in the United States.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Roll call.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roll%20call. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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