How to Use call-in in a Sentence

call-in

1 of 2 adjective
  • This offer is only valid for dine-in and call-in orders.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The offer is valid for dine-in, online, call-in, and carryout.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In 2016, the alt-comic cable talk show The Chris Gethard Show engineered a strange form of call-in game show.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The film’s narrative arc revolves around a call-in radio show.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Peach Cobbler customers will be able to walk-in, call-in, or use the store’s app for delivery through a party.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The call-in instructions were displayed prominently in boldface type at the top of the agenda and the second page.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The engineer complied just in time to show Putin’s annual call-in show, which lasted around four hours that day.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 22 June 2023
  • If so, your call-in time frames might be causing undue frustration.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The 7-foot-2 center got a vote of confidence from Calipari on Calipari's call-in show Monday.
    Kevin Skiver, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The store also offers a daily 15% discount for veterans on all dine-in and call-in orders.
    Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The mystery of his whereabouts came to a grim end last Monday, when police got a call-in tip about a possible body in 45-year-old Heather Stines’ apartment.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The board posted call-in information online for its May meeting.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • There are no online or call-in orders during the cruise, however walk-in carryout is available.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Also, Buffalo Wild Wings always has a 15% military discount for dine-in and call-in orders.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Biden's post-debate cleanup — campaign rallies, an interview with George Stephanopoulos, and a call-in on Morning Joe — have failed to reset the narrative, at least so far.
    Neal Rothschild, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • The veteran broadcaster retired after hosting call-in talk shows for 30+ years.
    Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The ladies reminisce on past collaboration projects, and give relationship advice to a call-in fan.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Her work didn’t end even after selling all day at local events or festivals or after filling call-in orders (this was before websites).
    Christopher Hurn, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Some pediatricians have a specific call-in period each day.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Owens certainly was the station’s most prominent host, leading live, call-in discussions with listeners about the most pressing issues in Bay Area news and national news, culture and entertainment.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But far from a cool respite from a hot political climate, an otherwise tranquil waterfront transforms into yet another backdrop for grievance with audio from call-in radio shows.
    Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The first involves establishing call-in lines at airports for incoming pilots to schedule landing and supply unloading times, as well as scheduling and reserving aircraft parking.
    Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • That case involves a $7 million grant the Biden administration declined to issue after the state wouldn't agree to provide Title X patients with the national call-in hotline where operators would supply them with referral information.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Individuals used the platform to share reports, voluntarily and in real time, about symptoms using a variety of media (such as a call-in line and smartphones); this information was quickly verified and collated.
    Jaron Lanier, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2020

call in

2 of 2 verb
  • But if there's any doubt, Smith said, the unit is called in.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And it’s, it’s ... time to call in the dumb cop (Ned Beatty).
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Like the rest of the working-from- home world, St. Nick will call in via Zoom.
    The Editors, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Perhaps the Supreme Court would be called in to tell us.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • He has only been called in to work two shifts in the past two weeks.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Williams learned Sadler had made two phone calls in the apartment.
    Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The press did not print the recorded call in full until 1993.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The league office should expect a phone call in the next day or so.
    Nubyjas Wilborn | Nwilborn@al.com, al, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The last time Crystal Sorey saw her daughter was on a video call in the spring of 2019.
    Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Montgomery got the call in the 10th inning, with two outs, a runner on first, and the Cubs ahead, 8-7.
    New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • With about half the vote counted, Mr. Kelly was ahead but there was no call in the race.
    Alicia A. Caldwell, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Noah Reid will be on the video call in a minute, his publicist tells me.
    Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe the officials just missed the call in the AFC title game.
    Mike Bass Special To The Enquirer Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But that’s the hardest call in basketball, the block/charge.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Males of the species let out calls in a series of short pulses, researchers said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Jovic then got the call in the third period ahead of Dedmon, when Adebayo went to the bench.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
  • At that time, as much as 10% of all TSA employees called in sick.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Anybody can just call in off the street and talk to Jackie Robinson?
    Ron Rapoport, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Biden and Putin held their second call in a month, at Putin’s request.
    Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2022
  • There's always been – There's always a lot of name calling in the last week.
    NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Had to call in some reinforcements to help with the unveil!
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Frey can be heard asking in one call in the docuseries trailer.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Mom called in distress, asking if the night light was too bright or the sound machine too loud.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • The controversy comes as Biden and Xi are set to hold their first phone call in four months.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 27 July 2022
  • By that point, Toni would have called in sick herself, would be home napping.
    Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • Gerada made three house calls on her first day on call in 1991.
    Longreads, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The forum will be a call in, online forum to be live streamed on the league’s Facebook page at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8.
    Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The track sat in the vault for a year until Lang received a phone call in 2018 to meet SZA for a studio session.
    Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The yellow cards already doled out, and how the game had been called in general, had the KC manager worried.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Here’s another story from my team: A customer called in for support and asked about a new service.
    Nataliia Onyshkevych, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'call-in.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: