How to Use call down in a Sentence

call down

verb
  • Ming opened up her fourth floor window and called down to the firefighters below.
    — Kate Talerico, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2026
  • They are insulated with feathers from ducks or geese called down.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Armed with a name, Polyphemus is able to call down his father’s wrath on Odysseus.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
  • Scott said, when he was called down to the lobby, James threatened his family.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Stokes apparently called down to Bell, who answered.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • On July 14th, Etoria was called down to intake with a group of men of diverse nationalities.
    — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Even the New York State Police had been called down to join, and were standing around in their purple ties and Dudley Do-Right hats.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And Josh still viscerally remembers a moment in grade school when he was called down to the office and accused of punching another student, mistaken for the other Josh Jones in his school.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • After leaving the field at the end of the third, Fried walked into the tunnel leading to the visitors’ clubhouse, flanked by pitching coach Matt Blake, who immediately called down to the bullpen to have Paul Blackburn warm up.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • Derpetrossian was working with a hot shot crew with the Angeles National Forest when he got called down to help fight fires that were popping up around Los Angeles while the Palisades Fire wreaked havoc on the city’s Westside.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
  • At another point, NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman called down to Earth to NASA’s IT specialists on the ground to report that both versions of Microsoft’s email program Outlook installed on his computer were not working.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026

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