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Synonyms for call back

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kawl-bak

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɔlˌbæk

Définition of call back

Origin : early 14c., from call (v.). Sense of "a short formal visit" is from 1862.

verb recall

Example sentences :

"I may not see you folks again till supper," he bethought him to call back.
Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower

Presently he attempted to rise and call back the countryman with the horses.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

He wanted to call back his very life that was going away from him.
Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad

When game is scarce, medicine is made to call back the buffalo.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 » by Various

Have it marked immediate, please, an' I'll call back in an hour.
Extract from : « Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches » by Ruth McEnery Stuart

Thus did David mourn when he could not call back Absalom to life.
Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther

I have no more power to call back to thee the maiden I was of old, than thou.
Extract from : « The White Rose of Langley » by Emily Sarah Holt

Then it is my duty to call back my men, and attack the flames.
Extract from : « Mother Carey's Chicken » by George Manville Fenn

I cannot call back the years, however much I might wish to do so.
Extract from : « The Master Mummer » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

At length the majority agreed to call back their Stuart kings.
Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 » by Various

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