How to Use call off in a Sentence

call off

verb
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  • Should the game be called off, the U.S. team would proceed into the tournament’s next round by default.
    — Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024
  • The recommendation came after Grayson failed to slow down after his boss called off a vehicle pursuit.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 27 July 2024
  • The search was called off around 10:30 p.m. and resumed Friday morning, officials said.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2024
  • Airport workers also threatened to strike in mid-July but the action was ultimately called off.
    — Ivana Saric, Axios, 27 July 2024
  • Both proposals were rejected, and the RFP process was called off in 2019.
    — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2024
  • Some of her fans don’t think so and want the hunt to be called off.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • But Vernor was called off to fight in the Civil War in 1862.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2023
  • The deputy was called off the pursuit when speeds again hit 100 mph as the chase neared Huntersville, the report said.
    — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2024
  • The two were engaged, but their wedding was called off.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The only way for the government to save itself was to call off the elections.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The rest of the show was called off and the following night’s production was canceled.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2024
  • She was told the course had been called off mere days before getting on a plane to London .
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 20 July 2023
  • Many airlines were forced to call off flights, but Southwest was by far the leader.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Recent decisions by the Big Ten and the Pac-12 to call off fall sports raise a new dilemma for high schools.
    — Jim Vertuno, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • However, one last-moment snag forced her to call off the whole project.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Soon after, the orcas called off their attack and moved away.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The singer faced health problems in the last months of his life, prompting him to reschedule or call off some of his concerts.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Fans and players waited for the field to dry, but, ultimately, the match was called off.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • The set was called off to acknowledge the victims of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Many airlines were forced to call off flights, but Southwest Airlines was by far the leader.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The Coast Guard searched a 28-square-mile area for about six hours; the sheriff’s office called off its search the following morning.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • After searching for a combined 11 hours, the effort was called off around 9 a.m. Thursday, the Coast Guard said.
    — Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
  • On Tuesday night, the Coast Guard called off search efforts, adding the six missing workers are presumed to be dead.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike the Senate, the House leaders called off votes in the lower chamber Tuesday night because of the storms.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The 1944 presidential election would be called off because of the war.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Ten minutes later, an announcer said over the loud speaker that the game would be called off.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In 2019, a Thanksgiving Day event was called off ahead of another storm.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The two leaders had set Sunday as the deadline to decide whether to call off their discussions.
    — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2020
  • So the only logical response was to call off the vote when the bill was destined to fail miserably.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Covid diagnosis forced them to call off two shows, but backup singer Sasha Allen was unable to make the gig.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2022

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