"call" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Two curlews flew over, calling plaintively, dark against a greying sky.
- I called plaintively as they left, then returned my attention to hot tamales, cold beer, and the odd body or two.
- He heard, for the first time, the sorrowing cry a vesta made as it died, calling plaintively to its own.
- In the tops of the trees the wind began to play, disturbing the sleeping birds so that they flew about calling plaintively.
- "Wait," she calls plaintively to a drug dealer as he races for a rooftop.
- Birds called plaintively from the direction of the swamp, wondering where dawn was, and he went to sleep.
- It called plaintively to him in a small, desperate whine.
- They called to him plaintively, begging him to return, but he would not.
- Flies were collecting, and large black birds circled overhead, calling plaintively.
- Rukh called plaintively, "Won't the gentlemen wait to hear the story about the satyr?"
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