How to Use call-in in a Sentence

call-in

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of call-innext
  • In 2016, the alt-comic cable talk show The Chris Gethard Show engineered a strange form of call-in game show.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The film’s narrative arc revolves around a call-in radio show.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Peach Cobbler customers will be able to walk-in, call-in, or use the store’s app for delivery through a party.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The engineer complied just in time to show Putin’s annual call-in show, which lasted around four hours that day.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 22 June 2023
  • If so, your call-in time frames might be causing undue frustration.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The 7-foot-2 center got a vote of confidence from Calipari on Calipari's call-in show Monday.
    — Kevin Skiver, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The mystery of his whereabouts came to a grim end last Monday, when police got a call-in tip about a possible body in 45-year-old Heather Stines’ apartment.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The board posted call-in information online for its May meeting.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • There are no online or call-in orders during the cruise, however walk-in carryout is available.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Biden's post-debate cleanup — campaign rallies, an interview with George Stephanopoulos, and a call-in on Morning Joe — have failed to reset the narrative, at least so far.
    — Neal Rothschild, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • Her work didn’t end even after selling all day at local events or festivals or after filling call-in orders (this was before websites).
    — Christopher Hurn, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Some pediatricians have a specific call-in period each day.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But far from a cool respite from a hot political climate, an otherwise tranquil waterfront transforms into yet another backdrop for grievance with audio from call-in radio shows.
    — Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Individuals used the platform to share reports, voluntarily and in real time, about symptoms using a variety of media (such as a call-in line and smartphones); this information was quickly verified and collated.
    — Jaron Lanier, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2020
  • That case involves a $7 million grant the Biden administration declined to issue after the state wouldn't agree to provide Title X patients with the national call-in hotline where operators would supply them with referral information.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2024
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call in

2 of 2 verb
  • But if there's any doubt, Smith said, the unit is called in.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And it’s, it’s ... time to call in the dumb cop (Ned Beatty).
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps the Supreme Court would be called in to tell us.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • He has only been called in to work two shifts in the past two weeks.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Williams learned Sadler had made two phone calls in the apartment.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The press did not print the recorded call in full until 1993.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Montgomery got the call in the 10th inning, with two outs, a runner on first, and the Cubs ahead, 8-7.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • With about half the vote counted, Mr. Kelly was ahead but there was no call in the race.
    — Alicia A. Caldwell, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Noah Reid will be on the video call in a minute, his publicist tells me.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe the officials just missed the call in the AFC title game.
    — Mike Bass Special To The Enquirer Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But that’s the hardest call in basketball, the block/charge.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Jovic then got the call in the third period ahead of Dedmon, when Adebayo went to the bench.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
  • At that time, as much as 10% of all TSA employees called in sick.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Anybody can just call in off the street and talk to Jackie Robinson?
    — Ron Rapoport, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • There's always been – There's always a lot of name calling in the last week.
    — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Had to call in some reinforcements to help with the unveil!
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Frey can be heard asking in one call in the docuseries trailer.
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Mom called in distress, asking if the night light was too bright or the sound machine too loud.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • The controversy comes as Biden and Xi are set to hold their first phone call in four months.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 27 July 2022
  • By that point, Toni would have called in sick herself, would be home napping.
    — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • Gerada made three house calls on her first day on call in 1991.
    — Longreads, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The forum will be a call in, online forum to be live streamed on the league’s Facebook page at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8.
    — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The track sat in the vault for a year until Lang received a phone call in 2018 to meet SZA for a studio session.
    — Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Wolf hit Dike for 16 yards to the Gophers' 20 and Skyler Bell drew an interference call in the end zone on the next play.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Friends and family may be called in to help with tasting.
    — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2024
  • At the time, Idol host Ryan Seacrest revealed that a record 65 million votes had been called in to make the selection.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Some people are just calling in to talk about what their reactions are to the show.
    — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2023
  • More than 100 firefighters and EMS personnel were called in to put out the blaze and treat the injured.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • Make a list of numbers to call in an emergency and keep them posted or in your phone.
    — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Organizers called in backhoes to spread gravel and dump dirt, plugging crater-size holes of water.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024

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