How to Use cattle call in a Sentence
cattle call
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At least in that cattle call, the dudes a team picks have a chance at playing in the league the following year.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2019
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In May, with all the cartoonists in town at the same time, the San Diego convention turned into a cattle call job interview.
—J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2021
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We were excited — in retrospect, naïve is more like it — and never imagined the cattle call that was to unfold over the next 24 hours.
—Valentina Valentini, Longreads, 6 Apr. 2018
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Traditional job fairs can feel a bit like cattle calls.
—Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 30 Jan. 2018
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Just to get into the league players go through a veritable cattle call known as the scouting combine.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2021
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Coaches, scouts and general managers come to the player, and that’s a more favorable scenario than the cattle call at the Combine.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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During the cattle call, candidates will be given ten-minutes on stage to address the crowd; the time-limit will be strictly enforced.
—NBC News, 12 July 2019
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They are supposed to be a place where families can find compassion and most of all hope, but are basically a cattle call.
—Glamour, 22 Apr. 2021
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Now, voters will be able to hear from his wife at a crucial time – her debut will take place during the one of the Iowa Democratic Party's biggest cattle calls of the election cycle.
—Katie Ross Dominick, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2019
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This is the first of several cattle calls in the week leading up to the first presidential debate, and the candidates are trying to distinguish themselves and gain support.
—Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 17 June 2019
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But, hey, there’s another candidate cattle call next week.
—NBC News, 12 Sep. 2019
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Candidates debuted new attack lines during major party cattle calls and campaign events across Iowa over the weekend and have continued to hone them throughout the week.
—CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
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By virtue of their names and, um, their entire premise—lining women up in a kind of sequin-coated cattle call—it‘s fair to say that beauty pageants haven‘t historically been the most feminist of endeavors.
—Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 5 June 2018
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Nearly two dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls are descending on the fair for a packed schedule of cattle calls, bus tours and America’s best selection of fried food on sticks.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
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This Friday, Pence will attend an early cattle call of potential Republican candidates not named Trump.
—USA Today, 6 May 2021
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Nineteen presidential candidates traveled to the New Hampshire Democratic Party convention for the state's first cattle call before the 2020 primaries.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2019
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The controversy continues to simmer even as some party faithful try to downplay the intra-party sniping ahead of this weekend’s Democratic party cattle call in Columbia, S.C.
—Kirk Brown, USA TODAY, 21 June 2019
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