Sentence examples for was occasionally called from inspiring English sources

Williams was occasionally called "Cyclone," a nickname, like "Smokey," derived from the speed of his pitch.

I was occasionally called up to the bimah, or altar, to help close one of our congregation's Torahs after a cantor had displayed it.

He took up again his chief office of portrait painter and was occasionally called on to represent mythological subjects for the decoration of the royal apartments.

The fyrd was gradually superseded by the gathering of the thanes (feudal lords) and their retainers, but it was occasionally called out for defensive purposes even after the Norman Conquest (1066).

From 1436 to 1693, in order to distinguish them, the dauphin heir to the French crown was occasionally called le roi dauphin ("king dauphin") and the dauphin of Auvergne "le prince dauphin," as the Montpensiers were French princes of the blood.

The beverage was particularly popular in New Jersey, where applejack was occasionally called "Jersey Lightning" and was sometimes used to pay road-construction crews.

Mad dogs, which cops are occasionally called on to shoot, are "ghetto elk".

The highfalutin phrase for this process is "taxing negative externalities," but the levies are occasionally called annoyance taxes, too.

A few species of anomalure are occasionally called scaly-tailed flying squirrels, but these rodents are classified in the family Anomaluridae.

As Bonnie, Morgan Weed accomplishes the impressive feat of helping a not-obviously empathetic Hell's Kitchen audience empathize with a "Christian nut job," as she is occasionally called.

The Sinaloa is occasionally called the Federation because senior figures and their subsidiaries operate semiautonomously while still employing a common smuggling apparatus.