CALLED in a Sentence

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For CALLED, below is one of 420 sentences:
Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.

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 Meanings and Examples of CALLED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
called
 v.  past tense of CALL
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  He's having one of those tantrums the nurse called hysterics.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  "Ben Weatherstaff," called out Mary, finding her breath.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  She stood below him and called up to him with a sort of gasp.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  He had been called to London on business and had not seen the boy for nearly two weeks.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  It isn't like us poor fools as think it matters if us is called out of our names.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  At last the enemy's mother appeared, and called Tom a bad, vicious, vulgar child, and ordered him away.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  The Judge put his hand on Tom's head and called him a fine little man, and asked him what his name was.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  About midnight Joe awoke, and called the boys.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  He called himself a fool, and all the hard names he could think of.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late measles as a warning.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  They made salaams and called them "protector of the poor" and names of that sort.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Then they got tired of it, and allowed they would "lay out a campaign," as they called it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
15  Two days after this, when Mary opened her eyes she sat upright in bed immediately, and called to Martha.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Judge Ito said that if his wife was called as a witness, he would step down as trial judge.
17  The president's former aides were called to testify at his trial.
18  They were called to give evidence at the trial.
19  They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.
20  A trumpet called behind, ordering another troop to file right into a field of growing wheat.
21  I understand you have called content, and you don't understand is that I cherish.
22  I understand you have called content, and you don't understand is th.
23  The Archbishop called upon the government to build more low cost homes for local residents.
24  Every available doctor was called to the scene.
25  Opposition leaders had called for a boycott of the vote.
26  Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.
27  He's been working at a bar called the Flamingo.
28  His behavior was called provocative and antisocial.
29  Between the eighth week of development and birth a human embryo is called a foetus.
30  This is the patio, so - called it's really just the back yard.