Sentence examples for called started from inspiring English sources

At that point, the minibar's bag of chips or crisps or whatever they're called started to look awfully good.

The "m-novel", as it is called, started with a love story, "Distance", by writer and broadcaster Xuan Huang.

The Big B, as he is affectionately called, started blogging in 2008 and has more than 1.5 million followers on Twitter.

Paulistanos, as São Paulo residents are called, started trickling in during the mid-1970s, mostly college-educated hippies and artists, who created a kind of bohemian village in Bahia.

But militarily the "Winter War," as the Russo-Finnish War of 1939 40 was called, started with a series of humiliating defeats for the U.S.S.R., and it was only in March that the sheer weight of numbers broke Finnish resistance.

Chucky, as the overalls-wearing miscreant was called, started his rampage in "Child's Play," Tom Holland's darkly comic 1988 horror film about a little boy whose redheaded Good Guy doll is inhabited by the spirit of a foul-mouthed killer.

"Hello," he called, starting down the stairs.

Their band is called Starting Last.

He called starting a major league game "my lifetime dream".

Soon the ransom calls started.

"Then the macabre calls started.