Sentence examples for slowly called from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pylkkänen slowly called out the bids.

No response came from the room as Henry Wyndham, chairman of Sotheby's Europe, who was the auctioneer, opened the bidding at a staggering £16 million, about $24 million, and slowly called out bids to allow the picture to jump the reserve barrier.

The cut would work by switching from the current standard for measuring inflation to one that grows more slowly, called chained CPI, or as the White House recently renamed it, "superlative CPI".

Cardinal Vincent Nichols said Britain's response to the crisis was "going very slowly" and called for a major increase in the number of people being taken in.

Another one last year faulted the state for moving too slowly and called for classes of no more than 15 children and for teachers certified in early childhood education.

Immediately after reading that line, I read it over again slowly, then called a friend to ask him what he thought it meant.

Getting lite is also slowly becoming called getting dark.

Then come some more elaborate ideas, from a collection called "Slowly, Slowly in the Wind".

As I sat behind the wheel, watching on my digital dashboard an image of a battery slowly, slowly refilling, I called Michael D. Farkas, the C.E.O. of a Miami Beach-based company called CarCharging, which owns and operates 13,573 charging stations, including the one I was plugged into.

She spent 10 hours with her body slowly burning, calling for help, until she was discovered.

If they feel that they are being asked to work longer hours than they'd been led to believe they would have to, they may decide to spend more time in the office on Facebook, take longer lunch breaks, work more slowly, or call in sick.