sick call
a daily formation for those requiring medical attention.
the period during which this formation is held.
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How to use sick call in a sentence
He said deputy marshals on the inspection team escorted the prisoner to sick call so he could get help.
D.C. jail ordered U.S. marshals to leave after surprise inspections, judge says | Spencer Hsu, Emily Davies, Paul M. Duggan | November 4, 2021 | Washington PostThen he wrote, “We don’t have any more sick call request forms in this dorm,” on the last form he could find.
They would insist always on accompanying me home from a night sick-call.
My New Curate | P.A. SheehanAt such an hour a roll-call would be due, or a sick-call, or a guard-mount call, or a headquarters call.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesFather Desmond O'Connor was, in fact, meditating a practical joke as he hurried on his sick call this hot summer's night.
Grey Town | Gerald Baldwin
The surgeon was absent on a sick-call, but his wife, flattered by a visit from the landowner, entertained him lavishly.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerReported at sick call (the first time since I left Vicksburg) and was excused from duty.
An Artilleryman's Diary | Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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