Sentence examples for calling the roll from inspiring English sources

Then the clerk was ordered to continue calling the roll.

That is the one I will always remember when I think of calling the roll".

The low happens almost immediately: when calling the roll her new teacher flubs her name, calling her Daffy.

The Romney campaign has worked through most of the concerns, but still preferred officially calling the roll of delegates on Monday, when television networks were not planning to broadcast the convention to diminish the potential for any fireworks.

You haven't got any money — but within seconds he segued with protean ease into wild-eyed enthusiasm, got out maps, started drawing up itineraries, calling the roll of friends we'd visit.

Voting may be by ballot, by division (i.e., a rising, or standing, vote), by viva voce (a voice vote), by show of hands, by tellers who may take the count in various ways, and by yeas and nays (the clerk calling the roll and recording each vote).

The clerk was instructed to call the roll.

Mr. Moynihan then asked the clerk to call the roll.

(AIPAC sometimes asks congressional leaders to call the roll when a decisive victory seems likely).

Fitzgerald ignored his request and, five minutes later, called the roll.

It's shaped by the final vote once the clerk calls the roll.