How to Use cold call in a Sentence

cold call

noun
  • Track open rates and click-through rates for email; for cold calls look at connect rates and call times.
    — Samuel Darwin, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • His appearance comes thanks to a cold call from a producer on the film.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
  • My parents used to do an old Russian treatment for a cold called a gogol mogol.
    — The Healthyish Team, Bon Appetit, 7 Mar. 2018
  • More content is being created, more cold calls are made, and more emails are sent.
    — Vazghen Nikolian, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Not surprisingly, Kidd gets quite a few cold calls.
    — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • My most regrettable investing move was taking a cold call many years ago.
    — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • After a few years, trainees developed reliable clients and no longer had to cold call.
    — Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 24 May 2021
  • That's handy for salespeople who don’t want to repeat the same message every time for cold calls.
    — John Brandon, PCMAG, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Relying on cold calls or a single weekly post is unlikely to spark a steady stream of leads.
    — John Hall, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • But a cold call from one of the Beatles was a little more unusual.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And sometimes just getting that first cold email, the first cold call, to land — because that’s the one that can start the momentum.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 10 May 2022
  • Don’t respond to a cold call out of the blue relating to Medicare, as those aren’t even allowed.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
  • There’s no need for flashy advertisements, intrusive cold calls or door-to-door sales tactics.
    — John Hall, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • This could be far more energizing than repeating the same script on another cold call.
    — Aliza Knox, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Surprisingly, even the age-old cold call can be effective if your product and pitch are compelling.
    — Maximilian Kramer, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • More than a year of research and dozens of cold calls led her to the one textile factory that would work with such a small, upstart business.
    — Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Never trust a cold call, email, or mailed offer without confirmation.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Learning how to cold email, cold call, building relationships with car dealerships and all that kind of stuff with the reps.
    — Kathryn Dill, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • The cold calls go out, hundreds a day, from a dank basement in the redwood hills south of San Francisco.
    — Sabrina Willmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • His latest sponsor, however, didn’t need a cold call in the traditional sense.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Starting with cold calls to sell diamonds, Moshe soon found his true calling in luxury watches.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
  • Fraudsters find their victims across the country through cold calls, door knocking, email, Facebook ads and Craigslist.
    — NBC News, 31 July 2019
  • Fraudsters find their victims across the country through cold calls, door knocking, email, Facebook ads and Craigslist.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Call center staff and other people who make cold calls as part of their job are aware of the privacy and security concerns that such calls bring up.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • That forced researchers to comb through social media and make telephone cold calls to search for potential participants.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Aaron Wilson tells the story of how Gaine got here, featuring one critical cold call to the Jets.
    — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Schultz sold Xerox copiers in midtown Manhattan, pounding pavements and making fifty cold calls a day.
    — Ben Fountain, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • Owners seeking to sell their piece of the timeshare are drawing much of the cartel's attention, though cold calls to random numbers are also used.
    — Karol Suárez, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2023
  • The president takes questions from reporters regularly—sometimes in a gaggle, sometimes in cold calls on his phone.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026
  • My approach flips the sales playbook on its head, replacing cold calls with authentic connections and high-pressure tactics with trust.
    — William Arruda, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

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