siren
Example Sentences
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Their engine was northbound on State Street with its emergency lights and siren activated, the California Highway Patrol said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
"We live from one siren to the next. Sometimes there isn't even a siren."
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
"The siren tower in our village is rusting and leaning and is set to fall any time because there has never been any maintenance."
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
That studio was later used by dancer and choreographer Valerie Bettis, who crafted routines for some of Hollywood and Broadway’s biggest heavyweights, including famed screen siren Rita Hayworth.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
I sat there a moment before the memory of the shrill siren of the Recruiter’s whistle shoved under my feet like slivers.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Vocabulary lists containing siren
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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