How to Use clarion call in a Sentence

clarion call

noun
  • The health consequences are deeply troubling and should be a clarion call to all of us that change is needed.
    — Jean Case, Time, 14 May 2026
  • This is a clarion call to elevate our ambition.
    — Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025
  • That is the clarion call for The American Way.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Or is this a clarion call for the SEC blue bloods to get back to the business of dominance.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This would seem to be a clarion call for the president of the United States, and a populist one at that.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
  • Mescal had no issue with that clarion call on how to play one of history’s most influential yet unknown figures.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
  • In our eat-the-rich environment, taking from those who have too much to aid those who have too little is practically a clarion call.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Ben Tarnoff is a leading tech writer, known for his clarion call to deprivatize the internet.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Her TikTok videos acted like a clarion call, bringing them all together.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s frustration with Canada has set the tone, and self-serving special interests have magnified his clarion call.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The necessity to acknowledge injustice is its timeless clarion call.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
  • January 20 – February 18 The stars are aligned to strengthen your voice into a clarion call!
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2026
  • So instead of a clarion call urging them to change, executives are hearing a series of low-grade alarms, constantly sounding and impossible to ever fully escape.
    — David Podolsky, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Alternatively, a single, major disruption created a clarion call that motivated leaders to take drastic measures to turn the company’s fortunes around.
    — David Podolsky, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • This letter is a clarion call for immediate intervention to secure a humanitarian corridor that upholds the dignity and rights of the vulnerable.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The clarion call to pay attention to matters at home and avoid military fights overseas echoed the isolationism of the Republican Party in the 1920s.
    — Jamie Dupree, AJC.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Following two Indigenous mycologists exploring coexistence through mushrooms, the film is a clarion call for the integration of science and culture.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In mid-May, the World Health Organization put out a global clarion call for scientists to help define and create guidelines for ultraprocessed food consumption.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 14 Dec. 2025
  • And while the generative AI boom has brought significant improvements to our society, Mythos, Anthropic’s most advanced model, should be a clarion call to address weaknesses in our cyber ecosystem.
    — Kemba Walden, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That should be a clarion call for innovators in AI, diagnostics, therapeutics, housing, robotics, caregiving, and financial protection.
    — Ken Dychtwald, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In a Tokyo screening room filled with filmmakers and creators from around the world, Oscar-winning art director Tim Yip delivered a clarion call for preserving human emotion in an age of artificial intelligence.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The first such, that of John McCain, in September of 2018, felt like a meeting of the resistance, a clarion call to take up arms where the late senator, another Republican who turned apostate rather than submit to Trump, had left them on the field.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Today’s announcement comes just days after the launch in San Diego of Arts, Culture & Creativity Month, where Erin Harkey, CEO of the nation’s leading arts advocacy group, Americans for the Arts, delivered a speech that served as a clarion call.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026

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