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summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
he conjured wild birds in the air
raise the specter of unemployment
call down the spirits from the mountain -
censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
How To Use call down In A Sentence
- He wanted to scream and shout, beat the wall and call down the forces of destruction.
- Men are better judges of that than women; but for high, chivalrous spirit, for true principle and nobility, and what I call downright worth, I don't think you will easily find her superior. The Eustace Diamonds
- And through all this floated the flutey cries of the bagpipe, muffled by the woods but sounding the way the moon would if it could call down to the earth. The Queen of Everything
- call down the spirits from the mountain
- And it is our standard operating procedure that what they call downer animals will be tested if they come to the slaughter facility as a downer animal. CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003
- It's what I call downright Radical nonsense," said Mrs Low, nodding her head energetically. Phineas Finn
- He wanted to scream and shout, beat the wall and call down the forces of destruction.
- These things and more call down the mountain breeze for the right person at the right time. The Storyteller Han Sook « A Fly in Amber
- He wanted to scream and shout, beat the wall and call down the forces of destruction.
- Then, if she needed reinforcements, she'd call down for me. MURDER IN E MINOR
