How to Use call sign in a Sentence

call sign

noun
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  • The infantryman, who asked to be identified only by his call sign, Smiley, returned to duty willingly.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2024
  • She was named Reach after the call sign of the aircraft.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Kristin Wolfe — call sign Beo Wolfe — will be piloting the F35 for the show.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Four-Eyes replaced Sweatpants Kid as a call sign in the halls.
    — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Her parents have named her after the plane’s call sign — Reach.
    — NBC News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Her parents named her after the plane’s call sign: Reach.
    — Robert Burns, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • In the radio silence, a colleague uses his phone to look up the call sign.
    — Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • If the allegation is true this is the second salty Air Force call sign in a week.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Chari, making his first spacewalk, wore an unmarked suit and used the call sign EV-2.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The call sign reveal was a rare inner look into Brown, who keeps his cards close to his chest.
    — Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • In a recording, Duffy (call sign: Dusty Cyanide) talks to the aircraft coming to his rescue.
    — CBS News, 17 July 2022
  • She was not asked to elaborate one why he was given that call sign.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • One soldier, a Pole who goes by the call sign Konrad 13, described the war as a calling, even a blessing.
    — Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Marsala said the boys initially considered the call sign WLTH.
    — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The helmet has eagle stickers on each side and Cruise's Maverick call sign written across the front and the back.
    — David Williams, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Heron’s agent defeated the human (call sign, Banger) by five to zero.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Most of them ran up and down the frequencies on two bands, using KZ1M as a call sign for the operation.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 8 July 2019
  • Robert Glover, who goes by the call sign Cruiser 50, shouted into his radio.
    — Elyse Samuels, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • There was the filmmaker who chose his profession as his military call sign and died of a shrapnel wound to the head.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Ihor Tretiak, 38, whose call sign is Terminator, went to the bunker to warm his feet and Private Molodykh joined him to make tea.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • This revving, frisky 45 is a logbook containing the codes and call signs of the postwar dispensation.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • That unique call sign is stamped across the front of his black radio set, scrawled in faded Sharpie on his travel mug and engraved in a plaque on his car dashboard.
    — Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • National Lampoon’s Vacation Leave it to Dustin to come up with the most perfect call signs in a time of crisis.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 July 2019
  • The tall 27-year-old with a reddish beard had been studying to build automobile engines before the war, hence his call sign.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Spacewalk veteran Barron was assigned a suit with red stripes and the radio call sign EV-1.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The technical adviser — Yank was his call sign — introduced me to all the Navy people.
    — Julie Bloom, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • At the sound of someone descending the stairs, an Alpha marksman whose call sign is Mirage stiffened.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Six minutes later, a second controller asked the pilot to identify his flight and call sign.
    — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Aircraft on Charlie lining up runway 16C, say your call sign.
    — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 12 Aug. 2018
  • The team member charged with finding Russian targets is a former artilleryman from Canada, who goes by the call sign Bear.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022

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