How to Use call sign in a Sentence

call sign

noun
  • She was not asked to elaborate one why he was given that call sign.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Her parents have named her after the plane’s call sign — Reach.
    — NBC News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • In the radio silence, a colleague uses his phone to look up the call sign.
    — Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The call sign reveal was a rare inner look into Brown, who keeps his cards close to his chest.
    — Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Four-Eyes replaced Sweatpants Kid as a call sign in the halls.
    — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The commander of the team, a sergeant with the call sign Lawyer, nervously scanned the sky.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • Heron’s agent defeated the human (call sign, Banger) by five to zero.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2020
  • If the allegation is true this is the second salty Air Force call sign in a week.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Chari, making his first spacewalk, wore an unmarked suit and used the call sign EV-2.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Each of the pilots' seats are decorated according to their call sign.
    — Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • Now that it has been announced, next up is for Integrity to be used as the crew's possible call sign.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There was the filmmaker who chose his profession as his military call sign and died of a shrapnel wound to the head.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The outlet said the victim's name and call sign were changed at the request of a source who provided case materials.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Robert Glover, who goes by the call sign Cruiser 50, shouted into his radio.
    — Elyse Samuels, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • Kristin Wolfe — call sign Beo Wolfe — will be piloting the F35 for the show.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The pilot, call sign Dude 44A, was rescued on Friday.
    — Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But Curt’s fort, call sign Red Meat Three, has lost two of its four engines and can’t keep up with the others.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The helmet has eagle stickers on each side and Cruise's Maverick call sign written across the front and the back.
    — David Williams, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Another health care provider in Ukraine is a 27-year-old who asked to be identified by his call sign, Munin.
    — Mariia Yastreba, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This revving, frisky 45 is a logbook containing the codes and call signs of the postwar dispensation.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • That unique call sign is stamped across the front of his black radio set, scrawled in faded Sharpie on his travel mug and engraved in a plaque on his car dashboard.
    — Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The tall 27-year-old with a reddish beard had been studying to build automobile engines before the war, hence his call sign.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Marsala said the boys initially considered the call sign WLTH.
    — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • One soldier, a Pole who goes by the call sign Konrad 13, described the war as a calling, even a blessing.
    — Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Similar things happened with the call signs airlines use to identify flights in the air, Gonzalez said.
    — Martha Bellisle, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • At the sound of someone descending the stairs, an Alpha marksman whose call sign is Mirage stiffened.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The technical adviser — Yank was his call sign — introduced me to all the Navy people.
    — Julie Bloom, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Most of them ran up and down the frequencies on two bands, using KZ1M as a call sign for the operation.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 8 July 2019
  • Warren flew a Huey attack helicopter, or gunship, with the call sign Mustang 53.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Spacewalk veteran Barron was assigned a suit with red stripes and the radio call sign EV-1.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022

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