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
  • Did something about your house call out for a palette of white and gold?
    — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 1 Apr. 2012
  • 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
  • Doctors who once had to make house calls could be consulted by phone.
    — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The cops continue to bust outlaw hair stylists who do house calls.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2020
  • And the child, if no one else did, recalled how the handsome doc’s house calls had saved her.
    — Allan Gurganus, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Your fire department might have a hoarding task force that can make a house call.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Some stylists were shifting to house calls before covid-19 hit.
    — The Economist, 28 May 2020
  • Can’t someone get Patti Stanger on the line for a house call?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 July 2021
  • Their house calls are free and not focused on sales, and can last as long as 90 minutes.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 20 July 2018
  • His mother and sister got tattoos that matched his, thanks to the work of an artist who made a house call.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Your local fire department might have a hoarding task force that can make a house call.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Even with a house call, your dog may still need to be medicated to reduce her stress.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Each house call or hospital visit now required at least three pairs of gloves and two gowns.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 14 Dec. 2020
  • And so, after his telemedicine visits, Nagrani set out to make five house calls.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2020
  • During many of these house calls, Thomas balanced life and death in his worn doctor’s bag.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Pastor Cal also pays a house call to a couple on the edge of breaking up.
    — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
  • He's used to making several house calls for service but says that gator traffic has slowed.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • But when officers paid a house call, Schifter told them everything was fine.
    — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
  • One of the first house calls was to a woman who lived alone in a mobile home park and just had an operation.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • But this weekend, the winter staple made house calls in neighborhoods that haven’t seen snow in decades.
    — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • You artist hired piercers for a Galentine's Day house call to treat her team to body jewelry.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • After his appointment, Barreto grabs breakfast and then heads to his first house call of the day.
    — Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American, 10 June 2022
  • Blanke said he's driven three hours to make a house call on a Death with Dignity patient.
    — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Friends and colleagues described him as a physician who worked tirelessly to care for his patients and even made house calls.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The Criterion truck is a pilgrimage that makes house calls.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
  • In May, Moore told me that a suspect in a case of hers should be expecting a house call from the police soon.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • None was more explosive than Gould’s 75-yard house call during the fourth quarter that put the game away.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Both scores came in the fourth quarter; the first a 75-yard run, the other a back-breaking 85-yard house call.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2022

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