Sentence examples for call a thing from inspiring English sources

When we call a thing "unbelievable," we're expressing a belief that it's true.

Now to call a thing 'greater' or 'more' always implies a comparison of it with one that is 'smaller' or 'less', while 'great' and 'small'muchuch' and 'little', are terms used in comparison with normal magnitude.

Sometimes you simply have to call a thing a thing, and the thing here is that Trump's inner racist is being revealed, and America's not-so-silent racists are rising in applause.

"It matters what you call a thing": so begins this remarkable début poetry collection, which is a deliberation on the way we talk about war in both the public and the private spheres.

For instance, both he and Pat like to speculate about a day when whole chunks of English, especially the bits that constitute folk psychology, are replaced by scientific words that call a thing by its proper name rather than some outworn metaphor.

"It seems that when we call a thing not something else but 'thaten'-e.g. a casket is not 'wood' but 'wooden', and wood is not 'earth' but 'earthen', and again earth will illustrate our point if it is similarly not something else but 'thaten'-that other thing is always potentially (in the full sense of that word) the thing which comes after it in this series.

The Vikings held a type of governing assembly called a "thing" (incidentally, the origin of the English word).

Foremost among these was the U penchant for calling a thing what it is, not a genteel version thereof.

In disputation, one side calls a thing "ox," the other "non-ox"; the side whose claim fits the thing wins.

I believe, to quote Iyanla Vanzant, in "calling a thing a thing". "I'm Ali Vincent.

Oh my god no one says lover, mom, it is called a "thing".