How to Use clarion in a Sentence

clarion

noun
  • This case presents us with a clarion call to love both mother and child.
    — Marjorie Dannenfelser, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Raft of Stars is a clarion call to the wild softness in all of us.
    — Ashley Leath, Country Living, 1 July 2021
  • From that moment, his plan could no longer be a clarion call to restore a pre-Sept.
    — Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2016
  • There are some, though, who see a problem with this clarion call to protect the world’s wilderness.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2018
  • These faint peals may serve as clarion calls to some creatures that rely on seagrass meadows.
    — Shane Gross; Text By Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Out of the din, out of the fog, out of the noise, here’s a heads up, a clarion call, a positive moment to note.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Jones’ story should be a clarion call for both the right and the left to demand more truth from their storytellers.
    — Morgan Simon, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • From there, Olabisi heard the clarion call that would come to define her artistic career.
    — Raquel Gutiérrez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Beck moves from echo-heavy rockabilly licks (the sounds of his youth) to fluid, clarion squalls of sound.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This year, what is usually a jubilant song on our lips will become a clarion call in our hearts.
    — Meir Soloveichik, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • This timely book is a clarion call to all of us to act to save our planet and ourselves and our grandchildren.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The very size and scope of this consumer market by itself should be a clarion call for businesses to do more.
    — Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • So often, the plot of our lives seems like a clarion call for the extraordinary.
    — Devin, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2020
  • That’s a clarion call to shatter workplace resistance to bad news.
    — Noah Barsky, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Wanting to grow the Armoury was a clarion call, but there were other factors at play.
    — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Her clarion voice slices through the show’s labored attempts to be both fable and fabulous.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Proposals to drill in the refuge over the years have been clarion calls to battle for those who want to protect all of it as wilderness.
    — Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2018
  • None shone brighter than Samuel McKelton, whose tenor was a clarion call to hope and joy.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • From time to time, Francis makes a clarion call for evangelization.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Video of Floyd's death, however, was a clarion call, Yancy said.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The way the crowds stomp an insistent rhythm into the pavement feels like a Diasporic clarion call.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2020
  • Temperatures this week that dipped into the 70s were a clarion call to hikers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2019
  • That might have been the case, but this being America, the clarion call of liberty proved potent.
    — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Ever since the separation of these kids from their parents, and now the progress about getting them back with their parents, that's the new clarion call.
    — Fox News, 30 June 2018
  • Her love songs have always had a strong current of devotion, but her conviction here is ironclad, her voice clarion rather than yearning.
    — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Prosecutors will try to show that the Proud Boys heard the message as a clarion call and sprang into action.
    — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • But its more sweeping goal was to issue a clarion call for public education, part of a wave of teacher job actions across the country.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2021
  • Trump’s advisers have previewed the address as a clarion call for the Islamic world to partner against evil.
    — Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
  • Her powerhouse voice, singing intensely sad words, was piercing, clarion, mournful, and hopeful, all at once.
    — Shaad D’souza, Pitchfork, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But these political leaders for the most part fail to deploy the clarion moral rhetoric of King —and of Barber.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Jan. 2018

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