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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trump did not attend his Vander Plaats' cattle call of candidates earlier this month.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 28 July 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
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The frontrunner visited Iowa earlier this week, but skipped the GOP cattle call.
    — ABC News, 4 June 2023
  • 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
  • The summit has been a cattle call for candidates looking to line up crucial conservative and evangelical voters ahead of the first-in-the-nation caucus.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 15 July 2023
  • 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
  • Super Bowl Opening Night on Monday begins the festivities with the media cattle call.
    — Greg Cote february 1, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • On a recent March morning, Abramson was trying to access a web link to a master calendar hearing taking place at Chicago immigration court — a sort of judicial cattle call where judges check in on a litany of different cases.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Though unlike other multi-candidate cattle calls, or even past California GOP conventions, separate tickets are required for each presidential speech with the price varying depending on the candidate.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Trump gave his first speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, then an important Republican presidential cattle call, earlier that year.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026

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