How to Use call to arms in a Sentence

call to arms

noun phrase
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  • To some, of course, this is practically a call to arms.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
  • Indeed, this is Craze’s love letter to the art form that gave him his life and a call to arms to the next generation.
    — Kat Bein, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Opponents are issuing a call to arms: Save the railing!
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For opponents of meat eating, this loss of diversity is a call to arms.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Peter Coyl, president of the Freedom to Read Foundation, accepted the award with a fervent call to arms.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • One of those, university student Jackie Pham, says the media should stop conflating calls for cease-fire with a call to arms against Jews.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
  • To many observers, his call to arms — after three years of largely staying in the background — underscored the gravity of the situation.
    — Charlotte Yang, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Many users have been responding directly to Trump's posts on his social media platform, Truth Social, with the same violent rhetoric and calls to arms.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • For Los Angeles’ Jewish security forces, the Israel attack was a call to arms.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Most celebrations include the grito, a re-creation of Father Miguel Hidalgo’s call to arms.
    — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Former President Donald Trump issued calls to arms − of sorts − to his followers ahead of his appearance in a Miami court this week.
    — USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • Less told is the story of the wine program, which has grown to the point of bursting, a cascading, antediluvian overflow of wine wine wine, which dominates the restaurant’s interior tableau as a sort of none-too-subtle vinous call to arms.
    — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • This inadvertent call to arms by cGAS results in persistent inflammation throughout the body.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Perhaps the best way to understand Betraying Big Brother is as a political tract, a feminist call to arms for women everywhere to join together to fight the patriarchy.
    — Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
  • Pierce wrote arguably the most influential book of American white supremacist literature, a 1978 call to arms titled The Turner Diaries.
    — Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Lionel Shriver London Shane’s essay is a bracing call to arms in the post-Dobbs moment, unapologetically affirming the right of pregnant people to terminate their pregnancies.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022

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