call back

Example Sentences

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If the caller ID comes up as your bank, don’t answer and call back using the number on the back of your credit card.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

She said she understood that there "isn't an established process, once a nomination has happened to the House of Lords, to then call back that nomination before a peer is introduced".

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

Thirty minutes later, he received a call back.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

Another furloughed worker answered the phone last week asking to call back later—she was in the middle of driving for Lyft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

“But they almost had us. That was a close call back there in the tunnel.”

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder