How To Use Siren In A Sentence

The recent U.S. ranking by the World Economic Forum of 48th out of 133 developed or developing nations in quality of math and science instruction is a siren call. Jacqueline Edelberg: Political Will
Wadi Turabah in Saudi Arabia is the last place in the Arabian Peninsula where the hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) can be found nesting, and the isolated and distinctive endemic race Pica pica ssp. asirensis is pressent on Shalla ad-Dhana. Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
Feet sounded on the deck, the thud of a heavy rope against the hull, the blare of a siren. HIGH STAND
In the parking lot of the school, the siren filled the air.
The cops came with loud sirens blaring and I just prayed that no one would discover me until the coast was clear and I could get away.

I have recommitted myself to discovering a slower lifestyle -- I do, of course, fully believe in the power of poetry and play -- but the siren song of a highly productive life still calls compellingly to me. Christine Carter, PhD: Borrowing Time for Bliss
The sirens screamed even louder as the ambulance had arrived.
When a call comes in huge siren horns mounted on poles around town go off with an ear-splitting, undulating scream.
In big cities you always hear sirens all the time.
I am not saying I am some kind of saint who in satisfied with living simply, ignoring the siren song of materialism. (No) Money Changes Everything | Her Bad Mother
The sirens had sounded before the plane droned over, but for some reason the all-clear wailed even as the flares ignited. CORMORANT
The sound of sirens was an omnipresent background noise in New York.
Round her, and for a mile away, they fought like rams and they fought like dogs and they fought like tigers, and over the roaring siren sounds of the fight the gulls flew like the fume of it, screaming and swooping and circling in spirals, and through everything like the continuous thud-thud of a propeller came the dunch of tons of flesh meeting tons of flesh head on, shoulder on, or side on. The Beach of Dreams
After a few seconds, the sirens started to sound louder again.
If Neoceratodus is the most plesiomorphic species of living lungfishes, then lepidosirenid apomorphies may have arisen by paedomorphosis. Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb
They arrived in the capital to the mournful wail of air raid sirens.
It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
So, whenever we hear those sirens, that is a good thing. CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007
Red bandanas and shirts were everywhere, with a scatter of white, but everyone had a dark sweatshirt or jacket to slip into if they heard sirens.
The oldest is the Gehannam Formation (ca 40-41 million years old) consisting of white marly limestone and gypseous shale and yielding many skeletons of archaic whales (archaeocetes), sirenians (sea cows), shark teeth, turtles, and crocodilians. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
Europe has always been susceptible to the siren's call of socialism and as Tyler Cowen points out, there is a direct link between statism and the persecution of minorities.
The hyrax - elephant - sirenian core is well-accepted on morphological grounds.
Get in tough with your inner siren and go for high-octane glamour: think sequins, heels and a slash of red lipstick
Keep in mind that trademarks don't trigger a siren every time someone purloins your idea.
The ambulance leaves, tyres and siren squealing.
It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
Sirens pierced the silence of the night.
Following a minor road accident, the tourist was rushed by paramedics, all sirens screaming, to a local hospital.
To understand isotopic variation in Florida sirenians, we selected four teeth for serial sampling.
Hybrid creatures, such as sphinxes, harpies, sirens, griffons and centaurs, carved on Roman sarcophagi, candelabras, altars and temple friezes, were a direct source of artistic inspiration.
They still sing to me, sirens luring me limbs akimbo onto the rocks of rye, cocaine, hookers and tropical isles.
Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
Dubbed the ‘Girl with the Perfect Figure,’ Page was one of America's first sex sirens.
We find unicorns, mermaids, and mermen; geese developed from the shell-fish known as "barnacles"; we are told that crocodiles may weep, and that sirens can sing -- in short, there is nothing so wonderful to be told of animals that people will not believe the tale. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
Traffic is steady and far off he hears the wail of sirens.
The order Sirenia is composed of manatees and dugongs, and the order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
Petrenko arrived three hours into the party in a clinging black pants outfit and siren-red lipstick.
The vehicle has a tamper-proof exhaust, covert lighting and sirens. Times, Sunday Times
Equipment was possibly used to trigger air raid sirens during the Second World War.
The woman is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges.
In the days to come, residents will be bombarded by the siren and flashers of ‘traffic’ motorbikes.
She is the movie's sexpot, a siren that irresistibly attracts men.
Living in the tobacconists on Dane Street owned by his parents, Amy and Fred, he would often be woken by the wail of the air-raid sirens.
A siren pierces the early evening night calling attention to the bright yellow firetruck speeding toward a pillar of smoke in the distance.
The sirens of an ambulance screamed on the way to the hospital, alerting everyone that a tragedy had occurred.
In San Francisco, Silicon Valley's siren call has lured restaurant employees to dot.coms that pay more than the $7-8 an hour earned by the average kitchen crew.
It is perhaps a cliché, but it is the mark of a great writer that he succeeds in creating a recognisable world, a micro universe which carves out its own space and insists upon its siren like singularity…
Why the silence, the sirens, the jazz riffs, the drumming?
'There are naiads, nymphs, nixes, kelpies - loreleis, selkies, sirens - though the last two prefer the sea. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Another victim of the household siren was a Colorado man who was ensnared while cleaning his car in his underpants.
It all started with a harmless little jog, this dude, Chumani Maxwele a 25 year old student at UCT, and card carrying ANC member, is jogging on De Waal Drive when a whole series of speeding, black 4×4s, with sirens blaring and blue lights flashing, zooms passed him, probably giving him a huge skrik. Muti
The curvy, apple-cheeked siren is more than happy to let a new generation of carnivorous Chinese reporters get their nibbles.
No noise in the sky, but a wail of sirens constantly around the park, so steady that they sounded like air-raid alarms in the London blitz.
Here the fish is excellent as at Porto cla Lenha, and we found the people catching it in large spoon-shaped basins: I enquired about the Peixe mulher (woman-fish), the French sirène, which old missioners describe as an African mermaid, not exactly as she appeared to the “lovely lord of Colonsay,” and which Barbot figures with “two strutting breasts.” Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
New album on order; I like ‘Waiting for the Siren's Call,’ but not with unslakeable enthusiasm.
The siren was simply announcing high noon.
He was sitting in a traffic queue on York's eastern outskirts when the familiar sound of sirens wafted through the air.
The first of the sirens sounded distantly and she ran to the kitchen, gathering up her belongings with hands that shook.
A steady stream of ambulances was coming out of the school drive, all with lights flashing and sirens screaming into the leaden sky.
The fire engines were just pulling up[Sentence dictionary], sirens blaring.
The peace of the afternoon was suddenly shattered by a police siren.
Andrew gunned the engine and flipped the sirens on, sending the car shooting forward between the two rows of traffic that pulled aside, obeying the wailing noise.
We could just hear the distant wail of a siren.
It was carnival time, lights and siren, and Sorvino's migraine disappeared like a popping soap bubble.
Living in the tobacconists on Dane Street owned by his parents, Amy and Fred, he would often be woken by the wail of the air-raid sirens.
I always buckled my safety belt and drove below the speed limit, stopping for school buses, pulling over for sirens.
With lots of black and white, they revert to this year's trend of reflecting '50s screen sirens and '20s flappers.
Suddenly all the indicators began flashing an angry red and several alarms signals went off at once creating a loud cacophony of buzzes, sirens and wails.
But it was the dynamic sexuality of her act that grabbed the headlines and confirmed her arrival as a new musical siren.
Suspense builds as the siren wails like a crippled banshee.
The eleventh stage is formed by the primæval fish or selachii (sharks); the twelfth by the mud fish, of which there still live the protopterus in Africa, the lepidosiren in the tributaries of the The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
As if on cue, the sounds of an ambulance siren pierced the air.
As much as I hated the sound of sirens and the strobe-like effect from the flashing lights, a slow-moving ambulance was worse. Mercy Kill
As police sirens wailed in the distance, coming ever closer, she called her boys off.
To his detractors, Guston symbolized the regression of American culture, its surrender of serious painterly values to the vulgar sirens of mass culture.
As critically self-reflective as she always is, Rose also satirizes the role of the artist as muse and siren, by presenting herself as both subject and object of desire.
A deep-toned booming note came then from the hills, commencing like the warning siren of a space liner approaching its berth and swelling to a bombilation of ear-shattering sound that set the steel of the _Nomad's_ hull vibrating and their very flesh and bones a-tingle. Creatures of Vibration
Since launching in February, Vênsette's clients—among them model Elettra Wiedemann, designer Genevieve Jones and Princess Grace of Monaco's granddaughter Charlotte Casiraghi—have picked from the site's popular coiffures, including Siren (a nod to 1920s glam) and Tribeca (a polished ponytail), and makeup looks such as CEO (subtle smoky eyes) and Sun-Kissed (a perfect natural glow). Beauty On Demand
He jumped into the car, stuck the bubble light on the roof, and hit the siren and gas. DOLL'S EYES
The ideals of freedom and self-determination have never been realised; we should see them as sirens calling us on, not as blueprints to be copied from the past.
Sirens, in classical mythology sea-nymphs who by their singing lured sailors to destruction on hidden rocks.
Children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren lugged furniture, a washer-dryer and a freezer out of her bungalow and piled them on to pickup trucks as a town siren wailed. Floodway Forces Sacrifice
As the siren moves toward you, it is catching up to and compressing the sound waves it produces, thus the higher pitch.
The loud sirens screamed through the quiet night lighting up everything in its path.
If anything, he has unwittingly sounded the sirens to launch a war without end by this single act of presidential folly.
Whether I disciplined him or ignored him, his actions would cause Kanisha to scream like an air-raid siren.
Sounding her siren and firing distress rockets the ship tried desperately to make the beach but as the lifeboat crews assembled the steamer gave a final lurch and went down.
And she mostly steadfastly ignores my shouted commands, my entreaties and panting demands to be set free when the siren songs call me again.
A loud klaxon and a blaring siren signaled the start of the balloon busting derby.
After all, he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace.
I exit at Vermont Avenue and plunge to ward the screams of sirens in South Central.
Deep down, he'd known the siren call of what he did best might rise again to waken him from the slumberous existence he'd chosen. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The sirens have been fitted to 18 ambulances and 10 other emergency vehicles out of a fleet of 50 vehicles.
He dozed off into a pleasant slumber before being woken up to the sound of Klaxon sirens and flashing red lights from the hallway.
When the sensor picks up violent movement, such as the item being grabbed, a signal is sent to a base unit which sounds a siren.
For Kumar and his ilk, Mohammad Asif and Terry Alderman being two supreme exponents of the art, it's a fine line between mesmerising batsmen with movement, luring them to destruction with the siren song of apparently irresistibly hittable pace, and being cannon fodder if the ball refuses to bend or a batsman throws caution to the wind and links you inextricably for all eternity with a Leeds confectionery stall. Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old | Rob Bagchi
He jumped into the car, stuck the bubble light on the roof, and hit the siren and gas. DOLL'S EYES
Fortunately, I am relatively immune from this in the middle of Bear Lane, although I occasionally hear the odd siren.
To my surprise the ambulance siren screamed to life and the vehicle departed heading east to the highway.
Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. The Golden One: Summary and book reviews of The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters.
Sirens, daughters of Achelous, used to beguile with their sweet songs whoever cast anchor there, and then destroy him. The Argonautica
Then, there are chain saws, power tools, amplified music, traffic, sirens, snowmobiles, wave runners and motorcycles.
She hates listening to the gunshots that echo from Fairmount and Gilmor at night, wondering if the ambo siren is for DeAndre or if the police wagon racing around the corner has been called for her son.
During his travels, he encounters a smorgasbord of characters, from a siren-ish den of sex-starved farmer's daughters to a mysterious woodland healer to a lonely Queen Amidala wielding a shotgun.
Nicolas pulled up close behind them just as several more police cruisers, lights flashing and sirens blaring, screamed to a halt in front of the house.
A car highballed passing me with ringing siren.
Their isles might be called sirens 'isles, not merely from the attraction they exerted on the passing mariner, but from the perils that awaited him on shore. In the South Seas
Counselors need to understand that the sound of sirens may signal danger to them.
A moment later several police cars pulled up, sirens wailing, to take charge. THREE IN ONE
As we were leaving the scene, we passed at least four fire trucks heading towards the park, sirens screaming.
Nineteen other species of invertebrates are known: three species of early sirenian (sea cow), one partial skeleton of the primitive proboscidian Moeritherium, early mammals, sharks, crocodiles, three kinds of sawfish, rays, cartilaginous and bony fishes, several kinds of turtles, including a sea turtle and a sea snake. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
Neapolis, was called Parthenope from the Siren of that name, who was said to have been buried there.] [Footnote 12: _Son of Æolus. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
Just then, she heard the loud blaring sound of an ambulance siren as it screamed by her vehicle, hurrying up the road in the one empty lane that had been sectioned off by orange cones.
To the extent that those voices could on a given evening write themselves through Kafka, Kafka could experience even the ghastliest of them, even the sirens with their hideous claws and sterile wombs, even Gregor Samsa, as beauty itself: "[S] ie konnten nicht dafür, dass die Klage so schön klang" [ "They couldn't help it that their lament sounded so beautiful"] (Parables 92). Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
Police cars start arriving at the docks with lights flashing and sirens screaming, as irate ferry workers haul a body out of the water.
Can they recall the siren that called the men to work daily and hooted also to conclude the end of a day's work?
Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song
The neighborhood assumed the sirens were the police. Our Neighbors
Not to stop with a portable television, mini table fan, handgrips in steel chains, the rider shows his obsession for siren and mini cone speaker.
Use it to create rapidly repeating musical phrases, grungy riffs, retro computer game effects, rolling basslines, off-the-wall rhythmic patterns, dub sirens, weird sci-fi effects, plus sounds yet undiscovered .... MATRIXSYNTH
Excellent & moult utile opuscule à touts nécessaire, qui désirent auoir cognoissance de plusieurs exquises recepts. Savoring The Past
It was carnival time, lights and siren, and Sorvino's migraine disappeared like a popping soap bubble.
Seconds later, the squad and two larger rigs were gone in a flurry of sirens, growling engines and diesel exhaust.
His music sounds as if it is being sung to a listener on the mainland from some siren's island far off in the limpid sea.
The pow-pow-pow of gunshots was a familiar sound, as was the wail of police sirens.
Today, the term "lolita" has come to imply an oversexed teenage siren, although Nabokov, for his part, never intended to create such associations.
The sirens are also found on mirror stands for women to remind them that their beauty and powers of irresistibility are of voice and words as well as appearance.
Modern sirenians are large, docile, aquatic herbivores.
The sirens sound a warning when fighter planes are sighted.
The siren was a signal for everyone to leave the building.
They won't then send an ambulance with sirens screaming and bells ringing and that sort of thing.
A fantastic gilded bronze bibelot featuring three sirens astride an elephant once stood on a mosaic plinth with three tiny yet accurate models of the Greek temples at Paestum.
We could just hear the distant wail of a siren.
The diaphone has been likened in some descriptions to a reciprocating siren, which in fact it is.
There was a pause between them, the sirens screeching ever louder.
In addition, the motor vehicle or motor-driven cycle shall be impounded and any emblems, spot lamps, audible sirens, or flashing lights shall be confiscated. Dustbury.com » All other problems having been solved
As the police sirens were heard, the crowd started to melt away.
It spans musical emotions from the jagged shrieking solos of the sorceress to the seductive siren songs of the maidens.
In spite of the dog and all the formidable opposition the Annie of this team, Rebecca, a little belter with the charm and guile of a siren, not only holds her own on the stage but owns the stage.
In big cities you hear police sirens all the time.
I had thought they were so cool wearing those yellow jackets and red hats, riding around on big red trucks with sirens screaming.
Sirenians belong to a group called subungulates, which includes elephants and hyraxes, two animals that by appearances and habitat would seem to have nothing in common.
The genera Ornithorhynchus and lepidosiren, for example, would not have been less aberrant had each been represented by a dozen species, instead of as at present by a single one, or by two or three. XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. On the Nature of the Affinities Connecting Organic Beings
The government must resist the siren voices calling for tax cuts.
The narial aperture is thus pushed up, and is short, with an upward direction, as in the Cetacea and Sirenia, with whom the Proboscidea have certain affinities. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Walling is both star and morphing other, warping breathy harmonies and siren miasmas into elegant cyborg operas. Gazelle Twin: The Entire City – review
Nineteen other species of invertebrates are known: three species of early sirenian (sea cow), one partial skeleton of the primitive proboscidian Moeritherium, early mammals, sharks, crocodiles, three kinds of sawfish, rays, cartilaginous and bony fishes, several kinds of turtles, including a sea turtle and a sea snake. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep.
Detoxing has transformed the TV star from mumsy mathematician to sex siren in a few short years.
There been sirens wailing nightlong and explosions north and a new noise like a low whoop that goes then stops then goes again. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
The bridge is bathed in red light as a red alert siren wails in the background.
A seething Mick Malthouse, who spent the last seven minutes of the term pacing the boundary line, galloped onto the field on the quarter-time siren and immediately called his players together for an old-fashioned 'bake'. Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
Trees absorb the siren wails, clanging of trash cans, and other sounds of urban life.
One applies to females only - the siren; one to men only - the rake; and the rest - the ideal lover, dandy, natural, charismatic, star - are unisex.
Lights and warning sirens and warble tones and all that going off. How the End Begins
As well, the reasonably priced all-inclusive packaged deals offered by the Caribbean and Central American countries are like sirens luring the vacationers from the north.
More conventional, but with a fair share of siren sexiness, were candy-striped Capri pant suits or a 1950s-style ruched jacket printed with little blue mermaids.
I could almost hear the police sirens screeching in the distance.
A line of police cars screamed by, lights flashing, sirens wailing and ululating.
Get your filthy little paws on CD-ROMs featuring these sirens of British media culture.
They were to be accompanied by two grand pianos played by musicians, as well as three xylophones, four bass drums, a gong, three aeroplane propellers, seven electric bells and a siren.
Traffic became grid-locked and sirens screamed as fire engines and ambulances tried to negotiate a way through the chaos.
A source told the Daily Dispatch that two prison warders heard the siren signalling an escape and drove into West Bank, where they saw two men running and tried to stop them.
Fog signals have included cannons, whistles, sirens, reed trumpets, bells, diaphones, and diaphragm horns.
In the direction of the beneficial meddling of Europe, the recognition of the FARC as a belligerent force is fundamental, as it is well indicated by the insurgent organization itself, since the demential blindness of Alvaro Uribe Vélez only allows him to listen to the warmongering 'siren songs' of the United States, which at the same time satisfy his morbid obsession. Is The FARC A terrorist organisation ?
[Footnote 1: Naples, anciently called Parthenope, from the name of the siren who threw herself into the sea for grief at the departure of The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2
An unmarked police car, which had its siren sounding and lights flashing, was following a blue Volvo S40 T4 at 9.40 pm on Tuesday night.
The eternally young, fertile bride; the ancient, barren spinster; the siren; the sibyl—she was all these things, all at once, his beloved, the one for whom he denied himself the companionship of mere mortal company, against whom even the breathtaking Muriel Chanler paled. The Curse of the Wendigo
It required the extraordinary acumen of the great Cuvier at once to recognize, when the first specimens [v. 03 p. 0069] of the _Gyrinus edulis_ or _Axolotl_ of Mexico were brought to him by Humboldt in the beginning of the 19th century, that these Batrachians were not really related to the Perennibranchiates, such as _Siren_ and _Proteus_, with which he was well acquainted, but represented the larval form of some air-breathing salamander. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
When Hannah opened her eyes, she found herself lying on a stretcher, with sirens screaming loudly in her ears.
We all remembered the way the last one started - that alien-green sky alive with tracer fire, gauzy detonations, muffled thumps, unconsolable sirens.
At night, whole streets are kept awake by sirens which are just as loud as car horns, but unlike car horns they are not illegal.
A strict blackout was imposed in Pyongyang, and the populace was crowded into underground shelters as air raid sirens wailed.
Mike hit the siren and they screamed around the corner.
After the siren sounds, a crew has five minutes to get food for a day and pick up an initial attack kit holding the essentials to fight a forest fire: a pump, coiled hose, shovels, pulaski, chainsaw and toolkit. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The government must resist the siren voices calling for tax cuts.
I can hear a siren when the air is still, and the sea fret comes in.
Grant a simple archetypal creature, like the mud-fish or lepidosiren Evolution An Investigation and a Critique
Out on the highway a string of sirens raced past, sounded like a multiple-car pileup or a serious fire. OFF THE CHART
A car highballed passing me with ringing siren.
With one last wave, the siren gracefully fell off of the side and into the depths below, disappearing into the shadows of the sea.
But the paramedics are qualified to deal with any emergency and their Renault Scenic car with lights and sirens is stocked with the same kit as an ambulance, minus a stretcher.
The sound of air raid sirens filled the air, and hundreds of people dressed as soldiers of different nationalities filled the streets of Pickering for the seventh annual wartime weekend.
A Siren is a singing enchantress, part woman and part bird, who lures sailors to their doom.
Still, the siren call of those caterpillars is persistent. Brian Ruckley · The Short Stuff
When the air raid sirens screamed, they left in their apartment building scrambled for the cellar.
Adults sirens are aquatic and neotenic, with lengths ranging from 4-36 inches.
A car highballed passing me with ringing siren.
Another victim of the household siren was a Colorado man who was ensnared while cleaning his car in his underpants.
The families Sirenidae, Necturidae (mud puppy), and Amphiumidae (congo eels) occur only in the southeastern United States.
The end of the working day in the tea garden is marked by the wail of an air-raid siren.
We could hear ambulance sirens outside, with the occasional rat-tat-tat of gunfire.
Other thunderous detonations resounded from the area of the airport before the all-clear siren sounded, leaving an eerie quiet.
The hyrax - elephant - sirenian core is well-accepted on morphological grounds.
Somewhere in the distance a siren hooted.
They called an ambulance, and it came screaming up to the house with its sirens on. Teed Off
This artifact in P.T. Barnum's museum was advertised as a gorgeous topless siren, but was actually the mummified corpse of an ape sewn to a fish.
It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
After all, he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace.
There were police cars, ambulances and fire engines, all sounding sirens in an endless procession south.

How To Use Siren In A Sentence

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