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Example sentences for "call upon"

  • When the servant of God stood up to call upon Him, the djinn almost jostled him by their crowds.

  • And your Lord saith, "Call upon me-I will hearken unto you: but they who turn in disdain from my service shall enter Hell with shame.

  • I call upon gentlemen to give me one single instance in which they can be of service.

  • During her stay in this place she took for her director Père Jean Ferrier, the Rector of the Jesuit College, and confessor to our Blessed Father.

  • Aloes make honey seem sweeter; and wine has a more delicious flavour if we drink it after having eaten bitter almonds.

  • Again, who would not love this dear enemy for whom Jesus Christ prayed?

  • It seems to me that the very contradiction and opposition we meet with from our fellow-men, ought to rouse our spirit to love them more, for they serve as a whetstone to sharpen our virtue.

  • If naught happens to me, or if I am protected from anything that does happen, then I will dare to call upon my god to work a sign and a wonder, and to humble Amon-Ra before your eyes.

  • But if you would like to call upon me at Mr. Welby's plantation, where I shall be for three or four weeks, I shall always be glad to receive you.

  • Beside, you once asked me if ever I was in trouble to call upon you as I would upon a brother.

  • Captain Kane had informed him that the Abolitionists were "trying to get up a row"; but he had not anticipated that they would call upon him, and it was an unpleasant surprise when he saw who his visitors were.

  • That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall call upon thee.

  • Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee.

  • Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

  • Louville did not dare to call upon a soul, for fear of committing himself, and nobody dared to call upon him.

  • Soon afterwards Felix made a call upon M.

  • A call upon Alderman ---- confirmed the afflicting intelligence.

  • Are you sure that a call upon Mrs. Halloran will not lead to this result?

  • But I shall have to call upon Mrs. Haloran; and Emma upon her grown-up daughter Mary.

  • ARE you going to call upon Mrs. Clayton and her daughters, Mrs. Marygold?

  • Call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee.

  • Call upon Me in the days of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.

  • But praying, as the Second Commandment teaches, is to call upon God in every need.

  • She had bidden him to call upon her, at all events, and plainly it would be advisable to do so as soon as possible.

  • This same afternoon, having nothing to do, he went to call upon Mrs. Woolstan.

  • It might be worth your while to call upon Mr. Marchant.

  • My lawyers worry me so with questions which I don't know how to answer, and I have so few friends in the world whom I can trust except you; so at last I screwed up my courage to call upon you.

  • What if she were to call upon Mr. Saltram at his Temple chambers?

  • Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

  • I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

  • Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

  • And we shall have everybody coming to call upon us!

  • At all events, he had thought it well to call upon Rougon, who was fast becoming an important personage.

  • I call upon you to withdraw," the mayor continued.

  • I am afraid I must not let you come here to call upon me.

  • On Friday they went to London again, to call upon Mrs. Grove.

  • Till then, as I said, I didn't expect to call upon you in any way.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "call upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    call death; call her; call him; call the; call themselves; call upon; called back; called because; called for; called from; called holy; called out; called reformation; called their; called them; called together; caller herrin; calling themselves; calls upon; earth could; entreated them; full council; heavy rain; marked degree; orange flowers; shall return every man unto his