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Example sentences for "call themselves"

  • Some Bedars or Boyas, who live amidst these Lingayats, call themselves Sadaru.

  • But they still continued to call themselves Romans, and preserved most of the titles and ceremonies which had existed in the time of Constantine or Justinian.

  • It is indeed still rejected by themselves; and they continue to call themselves Illyrians.

  • They continued to call themselves Czekhes, as they do even now.

  • These outsiders held the power so long, indeed, that they may very well have felt entitled to call themselves Egyptians.

  • This much only we know, that both Eannatum and Enannatum I, call themselves, “son of Akurgal.

  • They cannot tell whence these appellations are derived; and now begin to call themselves by the general name of Aleyut, given to them by the Russians, and borrowed from some of the Kurile Islands.

  • They 'call themselves "Innuit," which signifies "man.

  • The Unalaskas and 'the people of Oomnak, call themselves Cowghalingen.

  • Coxe affirms that the natives 'call themselves Kanagist.

  • At the Census, 1901, Gauriga was returned as a sub-caste by some Medaras, The better classes are taking to call themselves Balijas, and affix the title Chetti to their names.

  • These Nairs, besides being all of noble descent, have to be armed as knights by the hand of a king or lord with whom they live, and until they have been so equipped they cannot bear arms nor call themselves Nairs.

  • In any case they do not care about the name Daraihan and prefer to call themselves Kshatriyas.

  • The Mundas, like the Santals, call themselves hara-ko or men.

  • Members of the lowest or impure castes employed in the office of Kotwar or village watchmen prefer to call themselves by this name, as they thus obtain a certain rise in status, or at least they think so.

  • All were willing to call themselves "Freethinkers" and work together as they have never done since 1877.

  • These and other moderate liberals refuse to call themselves "Freethinkers"; and they make little attempt at collective and distinctive action.

  • Webster replied that this would reduce the government to an elective monarchy; and the opponents to what they called Jackson's Toryism agreed to call themselves Whigs.

  • These aggressive liberals continue to call themselves to Liberty in the Nineteenth Century.

  • All the efforts of the Patriots, or the representatives of the country interest, as they now preferred to call themselves, failed to bring about the end they aimed at.

  • He knew that no one now among those who used to call themselves "the Patriots" cared one straw whether Spain did or did not withdraw her claim to the Right of Search.

  • They began to call themselves "the representatives of the country interest.

  • It would have been just as possible for the Clergy of the early Church to call themselves Levites, as to call themselves (ex-officio) Priests.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before him; call again; call themselves; call you; called forth; called great; called him; called himself; called natural; called out; called them; called together; called upon; calling attention; calling them; calling upon; calls attention; calls them; calls upon; first minister; five were; large flocks; long period; manuscript book; rode forth; village street