How to Use house call in a Sentence

house call

noun
  • Does your doctor make house calls?
  • From then on, house calls stuck.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • All the pieces store neatly in a handy tote perfect for on-the-go house calls.
    — Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Your fire department might have a hoarding task force that can make a house call.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Your local fire department might have a hoarding task force that can make a house call.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The Criterion truck is a pilgrimage that makes house calls.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
  • Holloway first met Youngblood on a house call in Manor, a suburb of Austin, in 2018.
    — Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Investigators quickly made a house call.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps if the Colts had another defensive back on the field like they were supposed to, Atwell’s lone catch wouldn’t have been a house call.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When Bob and Max were discharged from the hospital, Oz was in the neighborhood and made a house call to check on their tiny tickers.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Eisenberg, who has had some health issues since moving, discovered doctors who make house calls, spend an hour with patients, and charge about $35 per visit.
    — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2025
  • But when it was founded, Thomas Drugs was a lifeline in this then-rural community (the doctor made house calls by horse and buggy).
    — Margaret Littman, Southern Living, 2 June 2026
  • Achane’s house call The Dolphins had trouble running the ball in last week’s loss to the Carolina Panthers.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In all, 25 community members and five AltaMed doctors made house calls ahead of Election Day.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
  • Thanks to budget increases from the city government, Wright hired two employees who make house calls to encourage owners to get their animals fixed and mend fences so that dogs known to wander can’t get loose.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That would be Michael Fottrell, an immigrant from Dublin who became a doctor, bought the home in the early 1880s, and made house calls by horse and carriage.
    — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2026
  • As others were built, 2101 Divisadero retained the long sliver of land behind their homes, likely so Fottrell’s horses could be ready for emergency house calls.
    — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Dazelle was a pioneering pediatrician who made house calls all around South Florida and promoted preventative care.
    — Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Bailey is the Golden Eagles’ version of Travis Hunter, starring at wideout and cornerback while also capable of making house calls at returner, too.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
  • After two years of learning anatomy and taking classes exams in medical school, Scott spent two years shadowing country doctors in Maine and Vermont, sometimes making house calls to see patients.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Many were hardware merchants, shopkeepers, even doctors who had bought an early automobile to make house calls and decided to try selling a few more on the side, taking a good horse for $100 trade-in value and moving a couple of Fords a year.
    — Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Yennie’s family home is in rural Routt County, and traveling to a physical therapy center or finding someone willing to make frequent house calls is unfeasible, his son Ben Yennie said.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The videos saw Rausch and Washington answer influencer house calls across New York City with a morning dose of avocado toast and Matrix’s Food for Soft Multi-Use Hair Oil Serum.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026

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