"call" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The ship was loaded with Mounted Police inspectors, priests, trappers, traders, card-sharps, Indians and "Improved Scotsmen," as she facetiously called the Mixed Bloods.
- Only the other day I was writing in these Roundabout Papers about a certain man, whom I facetiously called Baggs, and who had abused me to my friends, who of course told me.
- "All our children were gifted," she says, "but my oldest daughter, Ilonna, was what we facetiously call 'severely gifted.' "
- "Pess has taken over the watch;' Zainal nodded, then asked Mack to collect the hand viewer and the file that had been compiled as what they facetiously called the "travel guide.
- Writers facetiously called this the "longest home run" in history.
- Robert Christgau, writing for MSN Music, facetiously called her "so much more provocative as an android than as a human being".
- 'And it never rains but it bloody buckets down,' Lily called facetiously after the receding figure.
- While this might strike outsiders as a little ad hoc, particle physicists consider the Higgson so important that one of them, Leon Lederman, facetiously called it the God particle.
- He facetiously calls J.R. his second favorite brother.
- Bennett Neiman, executive director of Elat Chayyim, facetiously called it "the longest Torah walk since the Exodus."
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