house call
noun
: a visit (as by a doctor or a repair person) to a home to provide a requested service
Examples of house call in a Sentence
Does your doctor make house calls?
Recent Examples on the Web
Zollicoffer is still known to make house calls to people who are too ill to come to his office or who don’t have transportation.
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
Kassar launched her business in 2017, doing house calls for Vanna White and other tastemakers.
—Lindzi Scharf, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2024
After several house calls, Lantz was able to convince Hector to return.
—Meg Oliver, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2023
The district was working to address the problem even before school started on Aug. 15, with counselors, support staff and a social worker making house calls and delivering backpacks full of school supplies.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
To find an answer to the question about whether house calls made a difference, half of the patients in the trial were assigned to receive home visits twice a month from community healthcare workers.
—Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
None was more explosive than Gould’s 75-yard house call during the fourth quarter that put the game away.
—Ndaschel, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
Access was once the top priority of health departments, which opened pop-up clinics, deployed mobile vans and even made house calls to bring vaccine to people who needed it most.
—Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
Tierney sets money aside for travel to small cities where collectors and curators rarely get house calls ($20,000 a year).
—Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
Kassar launched her business in 2017, doing house calls for Vanna White and other tastemakers.
—Lindzi Scharf, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2024
After several house calls, Lantz was able to convince Hector to return.
—Meg Oliver, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2023
The district was working to address the problem even before school started on Aug. 15, with counselors, support staff and a social worker making house calls and delivering backpacks full of school supplies.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
To find an answer to the question about whether house calls made a difference, half of the patients in the trial were assigned to receive home visits twice a month from community healthcare workers.
—Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
None was more explosive than Gould’s 75-yard house call during the fourth quarter that put the game away.
—Ndaschel, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
Access was once the top priority of health departments, which opened pop-up clinics, deployed mobile vans and even made house calls to bring vaccine to people who needed it most.
—Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
Tierney sets money aside for travel to small cities where collectors and curators rarely get house calls ($20,000 a year).
—Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
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house call
noun
: a visit (as by a doctor) to a home to provide medical care
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