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Example sentences for "called for"

  • With a loose coupler, as this kind of a tuning coil is called for short, very selective tuning is possible, which means that you can tune in a station very sharply, and it will receive any wave lengths according to size of coils.

  • The first set includes a double-slide tuning coil and the second set employs a loose-coupled tuning coil, or loose coupler, as it is called for short.

  • Good progress has been made, but under the law a comprehensive and complete investigation is called for, which will require much labor and considerable time for its accomplishment.

  • He led me to talk with him, and when I called for an interpreter, he refused it, pressing me to use such Persian words as I had learnt.

  • So he called for these, and caused them to be opened, examining me about the women, and other little questions, asking my judgment and opinions concerning them.

  • He then desired Mr Bidulph to be called for, that he might agree with and pay him for their value.

  • Then he called for Alvar Fañez and said unto him, Cousin, the poor have no part in the wrong which the King hath done us; see now that no wrong be done unto them along our road: and he called for his horse.

  • In this guise were my Cid and his people besieged for three weeks, and when the fourth week began, he called for Alvar Fañez, and for his company, and said unto them.

  • Accordingly he called for them, and sent for her father and mother, and other relations.

  • The cook clothed him, called for witnesses, and went before a notary, where he acknowledged him for his son.

  • I called for Pierre, and asked if he had heard anything fresh lately of this upstart lawyer.

  • Forgetting what had happened, I called for Jacques, and then for Felix, but by degrees the sickening events of the awful tragedy came back to my memory.

  • Pushing between them and the building, I called for silence, but the sound of my voice caused the hubbub to grow louder.

  • Now, therefore, let Daniel be called for, and he will tell the interpretation.

  • And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again.

  • Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a moment.

  • I called for my friends, but they deceived me: my priests and my ancients pined away in the city: while they sought their food, to relieve their souls.

  • Before proceeding farther we called for refreshments, and learned that a steamboat called periodically at Luss.

  • At the hotel where we called for tea it was thus described: Loch Lomond is the paragon of Scottish lakes.

  • Soon after, when he called for water, they refused to give him any, and he died of raging thirst.

  • We had a painful walk for the next three miles, and it was just at the edge of dark when we called for tea at the "Bogroy Inn.

  • He called for pen, ink, and paper, and wrote to the Earl of Feversham, and both to the Queen and the Queen dowager, to intercede with the King for his life.

  • The presence of the court made living dear, and the consequent expense of labor was a heavy drawback to the export trade, which, by its nature, called for a good deal of manual exertion.

  • The Board of Supervisors will be called for the 9th instant, and I will cooperate with them in their measures to place matters here on a safe and secure basis.

  • Deeming the return dangerous he did not like to order any one to carry it, so he called for a volunteer.

  • I gave him all the assistants and guards he called for.

  • This was the first intimation I had received that General Halleck had called for information as to the strength of my command.

  • When I'm cooking pasta for Frank, I omit both the oil and salt called for in the directions on the pasta package.

  • And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave.

  • And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest to thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt go out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die?

  • L'Isle stared at him, as if just roused from a reverie, and bursting into a hearty laugh, bid him go down stairs until he called for him.

  • When I called for a bottle of wine, the good fathers told me they had given all they had to a detachment of Portuguese troops that marched by the day before--a charity more wondrous than the virtue of the spring.

  • I met with it by great good luck at the posada at Buitrago; but when I called for another, it was so excellent that the landlord had drank all himself.

  • Gathering them around him, he called for a fresh decanter, filled their glasses, and ordered the last servant out of the room.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "called for" 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:
    added another; adhesive plaster; bronze statuette; called after; called again; called also; called attention; called because; called for; called good; called here; called himself; called spontaneous; called the; called their; called them; full load; living species; looks down; shall drink; shall return; still held; sustain them; tell him; three table; understand the