How to Use cattle call in a Sentence

cattle call

noun

• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Traditional job fairs can feel a bit like cattle calls.
  — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 30 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But, hey, there’s another candidate cattle call next week.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This Friday, Pence will attend an early cattle call of potential Republican candidates not named Trump.
  — USA Today, 6 May 2021
• 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
• 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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