How to Use calling in a Sentence

calling

noun

• He had always felt a calling to help others.
• He experienced a calling to enter the priesthood.
• And all the name-calling in the world won't change that.
  — Errol Louis, CNN, 20 May 2021
• The guys who play for him get used to his style of play-calling.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2020
• Also, the coaches have to do the same with their schemes and play-calling.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
• The calling of the name of God, however, is not the unique domain of Yosef.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• The star clearly knew his calling from a young age and put in the work to make his dreams come true.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2022
• There is one new feature on the Echo Show: video calling.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
• Jokes can get old and stale, and the name-calling stopped being cute or fun for you a while ago.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2021
• This is the place Chaplain David Sparks found his calling.
  — Matt Sedensky, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• Take my analogy away, this idea of a calling in the church.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2021
• The key is to meet the attitude of a gobbler with your own calling.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
• And through all of her pain, Angela found her new calling.
  — James Brown, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2021
• Keep Perspective At the end of the day, cold calling can be a numbers game.
  — James Nelson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• There was a stem-cell research lab, which felt, for a bit, like his calling.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• And check the calling card cause Chico Forti's numbers on it three times.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Such skills have always been part of Barnes’ calling card.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Kelly’s play calling didn’t adjust to the fierce pass rush.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• There haven’t been any eye-popping tweets from Biden, and no name-calling.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• But poor duck calling isn’t anything new; some ’fowlers are good, and some…well, are not.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• Jon Finkel’s calling as a book whisperer to burly bros can be traced to the summer of 2005.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• In June 2019, Bumble rolled out the new tech of voice and video in-app calling, as The Verge reported.
  — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
• Judge said some of the play calling can be scripted, but not for an entire game.
  — Tom Canavan, courant.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Hong found his calling at age 17 working in the kitchen at an L.A. sushi restaurant.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• In her view, their venture was more a calling than a full-fledged business.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• The cause of restoring the sanctity of life to the center of American law is the calling of our time.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Our calling as artists, news reporters, and storytellers is to bring truth to the world.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
• Some schools are sticking with their play-by-play voice calling games from home.
  — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2021
• Maimone had a hand working in theater and with dance companies and operas at that time and found her calling.
  — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 28 July 2025
• Blow offered readers a glimpse of fashion through her own distinctive lens, with stories that seamlessly blended high style with an avant-garde attitude—a Blow calling card.
  — Jordan Wake, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2025