How to Use call sign in a Sentence

call sign

noun

• She was named Reach after the call sign of the aircraft.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
• Kristin Wolfe — call sign Beo Wolfe — will be piloting the F35 for the show.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Four-Eyes replaced Sweatpants Kid as a call sign in the halls.
  — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
• Her parents have named her after the plane’s call sign — Reach.
  — NBC News, 23 Aug. 2021
• Her parents named her after the plane’s call sign: Reach.
  — Robert Burns, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• In the radio silence, a colleague uses his phone to look up the call sign.
  — Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• If the allegation is true this is the second salty Air Force call sign in a week.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2021
• Chari, making his first spacewalk, wore an unmarked suit and used the call sign EV-2.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The call sign reveal was a rare inner look into Brown, who keeps his cards close to his chest.
  — Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• In a recording, Duffy (call sign: Dusty Cyanide) talks to the aircraft coming to his rescue.
  — CBS News, 17 July 2022
• She was not asked to elaborate one why he was given that call sign.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• One soldier, a Pole who goes by the call sign Konrad 13, described the war as a calling, even a blessing.
  — Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• Marsala said the boys initially considered the call sign WLTH.
  — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• The helmet has eagle stickers on each side and Cruise's Maverick call sign written across the front and the back.
  — David Williams, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
• Heron’s agent defeated the human (call sign, Banger) by five to zero.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2020
• Most of them ran up and down the frequencies on two bands, using KZ1M as a call sign for the operation.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 8 July 2019
• Robert Glover, who goes by the call sign Cruiser 50, shouted into his radio.
  — Elyse Samuels, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
• There was the filmmaker who chose his profession as his military call sign and died of a shrapnel wound to the head.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• Ihor Tretiak, 38, whose call sign is Terminator, went to the bunker to warm his feet and Private Molodykh joined him to make tea.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• This revving, frisky 45 is a logbook containing the codes and call signs of the postwar dispensation.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• That unique call sign is stamped across the front of his black radio set, scrawled in faded Sharpie on his travel mug and engraved in a plaque on his car dashboard.
  — Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• National Lampoon’s Vacation Leave it to Dustin to come up with the most perfect call signs in a time of crisis.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 July 2019
• The tall 27-year-old with a reddish beard had been studying to build automobile engines before the war, hence his call sign.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Spacewalk veteran Barron was assigned a suit with red stripes and the radio call sign EV-1.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The technical adviser — Yank was his call sign — introduced me to all the Navy people.
  — Julie Bloom, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• At the sound of someone descending the stairs, an Alpha marksman whose call sign is Mirage stiffened.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Six minutes later, a second controller asked the pilot to identify his flight and call sign.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
• Aircraft on Charlie lining up runway 16C, say your call sign.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 12 Aug. 2018
• The team member charged with finding Russian targets is a former artilleryman from Canada, who goes by the call sign Bear.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Maultsby had no reason to distrust either order; both had used a correct call sign.
  — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2013

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024