Sentence examples for called them that from inspiring English sources

In the early '60s, he extended that approach by making objects — "instruments," he called them — that could be completed only when a viewer interacted with them.

On Wednesday, the mystery over Mr. Yang deepened when at least three friends of his said on their microblogs that he had called them that morning to say he was in a hospital.

Georges Simenon's Dirty Snow is a masterpiece, but there are probably dozens of Simenon's romans durs – "hard" novels, as he called them – that are as good, if not better.

Farther along the sternwheeler ride, we passed lavish, gargantuan homes ("little summer cottages," the tour guide called them) that have emerged beside the old summer cottages in recent years, creating yet another of this town's many contradictions.

"They said our sights were set too high," he said that night, inaugurating a tradition of smilingly chiding his doubters — "cynics," he called them — that has continued, essentially unchanged, for the past nine years.

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or "electric telescopes," as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files.

"Well, now I call them that; to me, they were just toys".

Both executives said, however, that no one from the production company or Atlantic tried to call them that day.

The architects produced twenty-seven digitanimationsons — "micro-movies," as Liz Diller calls them — that break the garments down into their pattern pieces then recompose them dynamically.

They didn't call them that back then, but these automaton androids were incredibly advanced even by today's standards.

Yes RSS enables widgets (even MyTimes calls them that) but it can do a whole lot more.