Sentence examples for be called after a from inspiring English sources

She said droll things, like: "It's so sad to be called after a quiche".

Mantel's writing is dark even when it's comic – the kitchen smell of a provincial hotel described as "deceptively sweet, as if there were a corpse in the wardrobe"; or a woman named Lorraine who laments: "It's so sad to be called after a quiche".

Firefighters had to be called after an hour of trying to coax the kitten out.

The game was called after a little more than an hour's delay.

Play was called after a 1-hour-23-minute rain delay with the game scoreless.

The game was called after a 35-minute rain delay before the bottom of the seventh.

The game was called after a 58-minute delay before the bottom of the seventh.

Others were called after a wounded rooster lay on the floor for a minute.

The game was called after a delay of two hours, 14 minutes.

The game was called after a 38-minute delay because of unplayable conditions and an unfavorable forecast.

The vote was taken during a relatively cordial special session that was called after a regular meeting on Tuesday devolved into name-calling.