What is "called off"

Usage examples of "called off".

They had thought him well gone when the insurance company that used him as an investigator had called off the search for the hijacked furs.

We had looked for you until the reward was called off, but I had a guess at who you were when you said your name was Jonas.

The terrorist operations were formally called off by Lyndon Johnson.

I fear the dog brothers have lost so heavily in their attempts upon him that they've called off the active hunt for him, but two of them will guide you as far as Sindark on the Darkwater.

As if some dirt-eater chief had changed his mind, and called off the axmen.

Miss Mellins presently appeared in a glitter of jet sequins and spangles, with a tale of having seen a strange man prowling under her windows till he was called off at dawn by a confederate's whistle.

The war should be called off, or the general strike would continue.

Suppose the match was called off and the crowd rioted, as the senator had predicted!

In the distance, she noted, the wardens had abruptly called off their search for Tarsa.

One side may have called off the game, but the US is proceeding as before -- more freely, in fact, with Soviet deterrence a thing of the past.

In November of the same year, Ismail Adil's attention being called off by internal dissension at Bijapur, Albuquerque attacked Rasul Khan, Ismail's deputy at Goa, and the eight thousand men under his command, defeated them, retook the place on December 1, and slew six thousand men, women, and children of the Muhammadans.

I said I had called off an attack four weeks earlier because Saddam had promised full compliance.

That left only two of our antagonists, and these the dwar called off.

Even if the boats called off their ill-advised attack at this point, affront had already been given.

Gabriel called off the terror-stricken crew from the further hunting of the whale.