How to Use call to arms in a Sentence

call to arms

noun phrase
  • And from that purpose, a call to arms.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2026
  • This press release reads like a call to arms.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Other leaders across the country appeared to heed this call to arms.
    — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Other leaders across the country appeared to heed this call to arms.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • This isn’t a call to arms, but rather an invitation for readiness.
    — Steve Booren, Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Overall, the track feels like a call to arms toward Kendrick’s idea of a better world.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The open letter was a call to arms for activists to act against unjust laws rather than sit idle hoping for change.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Eleven years later, that line is less a call to arms than a cliché filmmakers can no longer afford to ignore.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
  • For opponents of meat eating, this loss of diversity is a call to arms.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The big story in fashion in 2025 is a call to arms for personal style.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In its brevity and punchiness, Arteta’s pre-match call to arms seemed to heed its own message.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • For surf enthusiasts, Big Wave Bay is your call to arms, or rather, boards.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Indeed, this is Craze’s love letter to the art form that gave him his life and a call to arms to the next generation.
    — Kat Bein, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Now, almost 250 years later, Americans are hearing a new call to arms.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 27 May 2024
  • In his call to arms, Hidalgo urged the people to rise up and end Spanish rule in Mexico.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In his call to arms, Hidalgo urged the people to rise up and end Spanish rule in Mexico.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In his 2022 memoir, Netanyahu wrote proudly about rejecting these calls to arms.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • This call to arms scandalized many establishment conservatives, some of whom provided a check on Trump in his first term.
    — Laura K. Field, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
  • To many observers, his call to arms — after three years of largely staying in the background — underscored the gravity of the situation.
    — Charlotte Yang, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • For every celebrity with a vape in hand, journalists in the crowd absorbed George Clooney’s call to arms under a sobering haze of scrutiny.
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 5 Apr. 2025
  • One of those, university student Jackie Pham, says the media should stop conflating calls for cease-fire with a call to arms against Jews.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Executives, CISOs and network operators must treat this as a call to arms.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This is a chest-out, table-pounding call to arms for Orlando NFL fans who’ve spent way too long waiting for permission to care.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • For some among the new generation of answering their country's call to arms, a bitter lesson from Dutch history is motivating them.
    — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Most celebrations include the grito, a re-creation of Father Miguel Hidalgo’s call to arms.
    — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For Los Angeles’ Jewish security forces, the Israel attack was a call to arms.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In a time where so many are quietly battling depression, addiction, or the aftermath of trauma, Trauma’s Worth is a call to arms—not to fight, but to speak.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That’s no accident on a bench stacked by Trump with the explicit call to arms to blend religion—specifically, Christianity—with the rule of law.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 June 2024
  • Peter Coyl, president of the Freedom to Read Foundation, accepted the award with a fervent call to arms.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • In Tehran, Sullivan dutifully presented Carter’s message to the shah, who rejected the call to arms.
    — Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 26 Feb. 2021

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