How to Use call-up in a Sentence

call-up

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• Triple-A call-ups have coughed up runs late the last two games.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
• Playing in Triple-A offers the hope — for some, a fleeting one — of a big league call-up.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2023
• Joyce is the most recent of the Angels’ aggressive call-ups.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
• The timing of his call-up isn’t lost on Crow-Armstrong with 18 games left in the regular season.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• This marks the first time Trout has not been included in the rankings, not counting his brief major league call-up in 2011.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
• That performance earned Vázquez his first call-up to the U.S. national team, for whom he's earned eight caps and scored four goals this year.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• After the game resumed, call-up Nick Robertson pitched a perfect ninth.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• Russia’s new defense minister said there were no plans for a new mass call-up of troops.
  — Mari Saito, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
• One of those younger call-ups is Gibson, a sophomore blazing his trail at forward.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• Instead, a flight to Washington in the morning to join the Chicago Cubs awaited Amaya, who earned his first big-league call-up.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
• But no matter if the call-ups are seen as hot-shots or depth pieces, the Giants, desperate for a spark, are now in a position to find one.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
• He has been elevated from the practice squad for the past two games, and the Dolphins have one more of those call-ups available to use on him Sunday.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• Rutledge — the Nationals’ 2019 first-round pick — was one of the team’s best young arms during spring training and seemed like a viable option to be among the team’s first call-ups.
  — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
• Late-season call-up Evan Carter looks like the real deal, and top prospect Wyatt Langford is ready to provide more thunder.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Mar. 2024
• Thompson arrived via an emergency call-up and played all 90 minutes in the second game against the Irish three days later.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• The call-up amounts to nearly 4% of Israel’s population.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• Twenty-six umpires were assigned full spring training schedules last year, and 21 of those were assigned to the in-season call-up list.
  — Ben Walker and Ronald Blum, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• After looking lost in spring training, the hard-throwing righty put it together in a sudden call-up this week.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2023
• Casey Schmitt appears close to a call-up if the team needs help at third or even shortstop, and another shortstop, Will Wilson, also had a strong camp.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
• How does the communication go between you and Chris Young or whoever else is involved on when a player is ready to get the call-up to the big league club?
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Been there before: Stars defenseman Thomas Harley, a late call-up this season, was in the lineup against Minnesota.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
• For Jacob, having earned his first call-up barely a year after being drafted, those dreams are no longer dreams.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• During his tenure as Skyforce coach, 21 of his players received NBA call-ups.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
• With the most Triple-A experience of this group, Westburg could be seen as the next man up after Henderson’s call-up late last season.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
• Nill talked about defenseman Thomas Harley, a late-season call-up who played in six games during the regular season, but 19 in the playoffs.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• The call-up age has been lowered from 27 to 25 but other parts of a mobilization bill are still struggling to pass through the Ukrainian parliament.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• Before his first call-up, Andujar hadn’t hit more than 16 homers in a single minor-league season.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 2 July 2024
• So has sophomore Reese Jordan, a junior varsity call-up who caught the coaching staff’s eye with her strong play at forward.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• Granted, things looked bleak after Harris got the call-up, but now there’s more likable white dudes lined up in front of him than weekend cowboys at a Zach Bryan concert.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
• Efforts to restrain the president’s worst impulses finally dissuaded him from a full, national call-up of the Guard.
  — Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024

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call up

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• Zeke quickly calls up Dhan’s husband Ethan’s credit card activity, and finds that Sir used a card to rent a vacation home.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 3 Oct. 2024
• David, 77, called up the producers to get him and his daughters Cazzie and Romy audience tickets for an episode's taping.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
• Without a doubt, calling up someone like Noah Atubolu or Jonas Urbig was discussed internally.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• He got called up for brief action toward the latter stages of the season but was playing defensive tackle as recently as late July, which makes his progress all the more impressive.
  — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2024
• Matos was the team’s No. 4 prospect when he was called up June 14.
  — Michael Wagaman, ajc, 24 June 2023
• To fill his spot on the roster, the Twins called up Lee, the 23-year-old prospect.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 3 July 2024
• People would call up and ask agents to price out a trip all the time.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
• The group take a deep dive on the Tigers' prospects and who might be getting called up this year.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2024
• Some think they may be called up to fight and want a useful skill.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• McLain got his ninth big league homer since he got called up in May.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 22 July 2023
• The state could call up to 14 witnesses, and the defense could call up to 30.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
• Donald Trump got on the phone, called up some folks in Congress, and said kill the bill.
  — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
• Austyn Brielle Nakken was called up to the show yesterday!
  — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The protests stopped in a show of unity, and many demonstrators were called up to fight.
  — Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
• When Jimmy gets called up to coach the high school team, Mike steps in to coach for Jimmy.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
• The county can not just call up a company and tell them to come build.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• Pressing the bottom of the screen (at the 6 o'clock position) calls up the settings menu.
  — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 9 Aug. 2024
• Lletget was called up to play on the team again in 2021 for the Concacaf Gold Cup, and the team took home the trophy.
  — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
• At this point, the Bengals might be forced to call up Isaiah Prince from the practice squad.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
• Last, swiping from the left side of the screen calls up an album with all the content on the microSD card.
  — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024
• Thomas, the principal, called up the school’s entire staff, name by name.
  — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• From the day he was called up for practice, on April 10, McAvoy shattered the learning curve.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• On the other hand, if your calendar is clear, feel free to call up some pals and hit the town.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• And even for righty Amos Willingham, who was called up to take Harvey’s spot in the bullpen.
  — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
• Holmes called up each driver to answer to their charges before the judge.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• After all these years, Rickwood is getting called up to the Big Show.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2023
• For some, the days of calling up friends and asking them to be in their wedding party are over.
  — Andrew Zucker, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• While Hall is one of the few prospects with the chance to be called up in September, that doesn’t mean the rest of the farm system should be ignored.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2023
• There always was a call to make, a meeting to take, a player to call up or send down, bring in or ship out.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• Since being called up to work out of the bullpen on July 1, the right-hander has yet to allow an earned run.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024