Sentence examples for familiar call from inspiring English sources

There was the familiar call for censorship, a specific suggestion that booksellers lose their license if they deal in "indecent text".

Yes, it's a big step away from MCR's post-hardcore rock anthems, with Way's Bowie-like chandsma and undeterred passion a familiar call to arms.

When he earned two break point opportunities in the fourth game, out came the familiar call, "What time is it?" and response, "Break time!" But after Almagro hit a 132-m.p.h.

Jon Rogers, who had skipped work even though he already had a freezer full of dove meat, cupped his hands together to imitate the familiar call: coo-Hoo, coo-coo-Coo.

"I happened to be in a little outbuilding, some 20 feet in the rear of the house at which we were stopping, early on the evening of the 24th, about half an hour after sundown, when I heard a peculiar, low, clucking noise outside, which was directly followed by the familiar call of 'whip-poor-will.' . . .

They were tapping into the spirit of the times, and now Gov. David A. Paterson has done so as well, turning the familiar call for political change into an appeal for healthful living as he promotes a number of anti-obesity measures, from a sugar tax on soft drinks to posting calorie counts in chain restaurants.

But that familiar call-and-response has been replaced by the pre-emptive strike.

Attending "Bayside!" can seem like a midnight screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show": there are many inside jokes and familiar call-and-response cues.

When the five experts finally came out to take their seats at the long table on the podium, the familiar call-and-response shouts erupted from that side of the room, and the whole auditorium joined in, "¡Vivos se los llevaron!" (They took them alive!) "¡Vivos los queremos!" (We want them back alive!) Each expert in turn narrated or presented an analysis of one part of the group's investigation.

"I was on 'Dance Show X' " has become a familiar calling card to many studio directors.

Men, women and children suffered, died and survived together; murder, torture, theft, arson and rape were all familiar calling cards of Civil War guerrillas.