How to Use call-up in a Sentence

call-up

1 of 2 noun
  • Triple-A call-ups have coughed up runs late the last two games.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
  • The next step in Gilbert’s career is a big-league call-up.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The next step in Gilbert’s career is a big-league call-up.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Two stocks are getting the call-up from our Bullpen stocks-to-watch list.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Playing in Triple-A offers the hope — for some, a fleeting one — of a big league call-up.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2023
  • Elsewhere there is a first senior call-up for Brighton’s Maisie Symonds.
    — Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Ornelas was 1-for-14 with an RBI, two walks and two strikeouts in his first big-league call-up.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2025
  • Joyce is the most recent of the Angels’ aggressive call-ups.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
  • Maybe the Cubs can wait until mid-summer for Horton’s call-up.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
  • And come and be called up during any subsequent call-up.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The full-back is yet to earn a senior England call-up, but perhaps deserves one.
    — Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The timing of his call-up isn’t lost on Crow-Armstrong with 18 games left in the regular season.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • He was assigned to the IceHogs again on Jan. 23 before his latest call-up.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Gasper went 0 for 18 with the Red Sox following his call-up last fall but made the Twins big league roster out of spring training.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2025
  • This marks the first time Trout has not been included in the rankings, not counting his brief major league call-up in 2011.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • That performance earned Vázquez his first call-up to the U.S. national team, for whom he's earned eight caps and scored four goals this year.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Fifteen years ago, aged 17, Dowell was a promising full-back in the Worthing under-18s and pushing for a first-team call-up.
    — Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • After the game resumed, call-up Nick Robertson pitched a perfect ninth.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Russia’s new defense minister said there were no plans for a new mass call-up of troops.
    — Mari Saito, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
  • Many believe the Red Sox' time to invest is now, as their handful of top prospects are on the verge of getting their major league call-up.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • One of those younger call-ups is Gibson, a sophomore blazing his trail at forward.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Instead, a flight to Washington in the morning to join the Chicago Cubs awaited Amaya, who earned his first big-league call-up.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • So in his mind, Reynolds was better off getting a surprise noon phone call last July for his first call-up.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Having allegedly helped Saint Laurent resist the army call-up in the past, the house now had no qualms about seeing him off.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But no matter if the call-ups are seen as hot-shots or depth pieces, the Giants, desperate for a spark, are now in a position to find one.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
  • The company is also believed to be clearing space for the next batch of NXT call-ups, expected in 2025.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
  • He has been elevated from the practice squad for the past two games, and the Dolphins have one more of those call-ups available to use on him Sunday.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • That rookie season came after Holmes, 28, toiled nearly a decade in the minors without a big-league call-up.
    — David O'Brien, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The Israeli cabinet approved the operation, which began with the widespread call-up of reservists.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
  • Phillies fans and local media are craving Kemp’s call-up after his obliteration of minor-league pitching to begin the 2025 season.
    — Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025

call up

2 of 2 verb
  • Matos was the team’s No. 4 prospect when he was called up June 14.
    — Michael Wagaman, ajc, 24 June 2023
  • To fill his spot on the roster, the Twins called up Lee, the 23-year-old prospect.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 3 July 2024
  • People would call up and ask agents to price out a trip all the time.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The group take a deep dive on the Tigers' prospects and who might be getting called up this year.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Some think they may be called up to fight and want a useful skill.
    — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • McLain got his ninth big league homer since he got called up in May.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 22 July 2023
  • The state could call up to 14 witnesses, and the defense could call up to 30.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Donald Trump got on the phone, called up some folks in Congress, and said kill the bill.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Austyn Brielle Nakken was called up to the show yesterday!
    — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The protests stopped in a show of unity, and many demonstrators were called up to fight.
    — Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
  • For example, Steve Jobs called up one of the Hewlett-Packard founders and got parts as a kid.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • When Jimmy gets called up to coach the high school team, Mike steps in to coach for Jimmy.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Then a few months later, something changed, and I was called up.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The county can not just call up a company and tell them to come build.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Pressing the bottom of the screen (at the 6 o'clock position) calls up the settings menu.
    — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Lletget was called up to play on the team again in 2021 for the Concacaf Gold Cup, and the team took home the trophy.
    — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Kaiser was sent to Rockford on Dec. 20 and called up again nine days later.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • At this point, the Bengals might be forced to call up Isaiah Prince from the practice squad.
    — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Last, swiping from the left side of the screen calls up an album with all the content on the microSD card.
    — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Thomas, the principal, called up the school’s entire staff, name by name.
    — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • From the day he was called up for practice, on April 10, McAvoy shattered the learning curve.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • On the other hand, if your calendar is clear, feel free to call up some pals and hit the town.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The frog makes a single call while others are known from a series of calls up to three notes.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • And even for righty Amos Willingham, who was called up to take Harvey’s spot in the bullpen.
    — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • Holmes called up each driver to answer to their charges before the judge.
    — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Winans had been called up on Saturday when Stroman went to the IL.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
  • After all these years, Rickwood is getting called up to the Big Show.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • For some, the days of calling up friends and asking them to be in their wedding party are over.
    — Andrew Zucker, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • And that might mean calling up a top prospect replacement in Marcelo Mayer.
    — Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
  • However, a couple of weeks ago, something much more tangible happened; the 14-year-old was called up by his country to represent Portugal Under-15s.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 15 May 2025

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