Read full poem →Chief Operator (To inquire about a call in the process of completion)
Dictionary Entry
To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
In a Sentence
“I was too unwell to work yesterday so I called in sick.”
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Poetry examples for “call in”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Under a foreign clod,"
Were the words I made to the bugle call in the
morning.
Read full poem →If you wish to call in person, business offices located at
the following addresses will serve you:
Read full poem →I will divide my goods;
Call in the wretch and slave:
None shall rule but the humble,
Read full poem →O'er all that mass and minster vaunt;
For men mis-hear thy call in spring,
As 't would accost some frivolous wing;
Read full poem →They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot;
Then we call in our pamper’d mountebanks--
And this is their best cure! uncomforted
Read full poem →two poyntes or barbes, lookyng backewarde to the stele and
the fethers, which surely we call in Englishe a brode arrowe
head or a swalowe tayle. The other he calleth r^**'/^?, hav-
Read full poem →Have you not heard that our hearts are old,
That you call in birds, in wind on the hill,
In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore?
Read full poem →They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot;
Then we call in our pamper’d mountebanks--
And this is their best cure! uncomforted