siren

Example Sentences

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But at night car lights flash across the dark living room, sirens wail, the clock in the kitchen tick-tick.ticks, and I think about the terrible things that could have happened to Mom.

From Literature

The album started with quiet wind and then turned into a tornado of thunder and sirens, swordplay and gunfire over big horns and a funky soul backbeat.

From Los Angeles Times

Michelle Lumber later became aware of sirens across the road and went out to find her husband being treated by paramedics, with his ladder nearby and a Union Jack flag on a lamppost.

From BBC

Police and firefighter sirens wail in the distance.

From Los Angeles Times

Into the creepy silence came a loud, frantic sound—weeoo-weeoo-WEEOO-WEEOO—and it took Natalie a moment to realize it wasn’t an alarm or a siren.

From Literature