How to Use call in in a Sentence

call in

verb

• He has only been called in to work two shifts in the past two weeks.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Maybe the officials just missed the call in the AFC title game.
  — Mike Bass Special To The Enquirer Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2023
• Had to call in some reinforcements to help with the unveil!
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• At the time, Idol host Ryan Seacrest revealed that a record 65 million votes had been called in to make the selection.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• Some people are just calling in to talk about what their reactions are to the show.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2023
• During the stop, the deputy called in a K9 unit from the local police department, which sniffed for drugs as night set in.
  — USA Today, 25 July 2023
• So much so that he was called in to read with director Christopher Nolan.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• O’Brien said the days are long gone when an NFL team could stick with the play called in the huddle every time and expect to succeed.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2023
• The National Guard and the U.S. military were called in, streets were shut down, beaches closed.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• He’s known to fire off a vicious tweet (or whatever they’re called in the land of X) to call out the fearmongers.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• Dean Wright spoke to his brother daily, but now Ray Wright had not answered any texts or calls in two days.
  — Kat Teurfs, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
• This would be the time to call in a contractor and put up a full, non-load-bearing wall to create a separate room.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2023
• Hawk-Eye still isn’t used to check calls in clay court matches, with umpires instead coming down to check the ball marks themselves.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• Multiple firetrucks and firefighters were called in to help contain the blaze.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Listeners would often call in, asking to speak not to him but to his sidekick.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2023
• Others closely monitor the type of critters that can be called in.
  — Sarah Baird, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Due to the dangerous terrain, the pursuit was called off, but a perimeter was set up and both a K9 and drone from Franklin were called in to try and locate the driver.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2023
• The country’s largest port, with more than 8 percent of its staff departed for the army, is calling in retirees to keep the cargo moving.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• When does the failure to answer a phone call in 8 seconds cost the company receiving the call $190 million?
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• He was recently called in to work at 2 in the morning, leaving him scrambling to get hold of Aniya’s godmother to come watch her.
  — Sarah Kwon | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• The former superintendent called in Colon, the project’s plumbing foreman, to connect the pipes on Aug. 3.
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• Lab experts call in toys and other gifts, test them to make sure they're built correctly and safe, and then ship them out to real tweens for feedback.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2023
• Its policy meeting starts today and Fed Chair Powell and his colleagues face one of the toughest calls in years.
  — WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
• Casey White didn't show up at court and soon local, state, and federal investigators were called in to look for the pair.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• The company set up the call in response to an open letter sent by creators last week urging TikTok to take action.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• That fomented calls in Israel to crush Hamas no matter the cost, rather than continuing to try to bottle it up in Gaza.
  — Josef Federman and Issam Adwan, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2023
• Police have called in contractors to help pull up the body, which was expected to take multiple days to complete.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• Officers responding to the call in a home on North Euclid Avenue found a woman with a gunshot wound to her head lying on the bed.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2024
• Mobile police responded to the call in the 8000 block of Cottage Hill Road around midnight Tuesday.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2023
• After months of training, he was called in December for his first combat mission around Kyiv.
  — James Levinson, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024