siren

[ˈsaɪrən]

Definition:
1. A device that makes a long loud sound as a signal or warning.
2. A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive.
3. A warning signal that is a loud wailing sound.
4. An acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning.

Use 'siren' in a sentence:

1. Radio host: "Then in what way did you acquire a special siren?"
2. The siren was a signal for everyone to leave the building.
3. He said the United States was not willing to engage in a search for partial solutions — to succumb, as he put it, to a siren song.
4. He holed up inside the house and begged his wife to hide him whenever he heard a siren go by.
5. The cars had stopped at the sound of the approaching siren.
6. I heard the siren again, closer.
7. A police car raced past with its siren wailing.
8. The siren sounded loud and long.
9. She heard the sirens scream their unearthly wail.
10. It sounds like an air raid siren.
11. Another example is the word siren, familiar to us as the mechanical device that makes such an alarming sound when police cars, ambulances, or fire engines approach.
12. He cleared off when he heard the police siren.
13. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears.
14. For example, a film-maker might opt to include the background sound of an ambulance's siren while the foreground sound and image portrays an arguing couple.
15. The wails of the siren woke the people out of their dreams.
16. Software and hardware design for a mobile air raid electric siren.
17. I know. It sounds like an ambulance siren.
18. The Design and Implementation of Air-Raid Siren Control System.
19. Somewhere in the distance a siren hooted.
20. In the parking lot of the school, the siren filled the air.
21. Unable to resist the siren call of the cards, he withdrew their savings and headed for Las Vegas.
22. It can get so loud that some of their friends have mistaken the male insects' droning song for a police siren.
23. The patrol car approached, its siren screaming.
24. The television stayed on day and night, singing like a Siren in the crowded house.
25. There's a siren in the background so I missed the answer.
26. Her many lovers also helped create an image of the highly sought-after siren.
27. Suddenly I heard a siren behind us.
28. On the backseat, the thing in the basket began to cry, like the air raid siren announcing the birth of a new life.
29. I was badgered with sirens.
30. If someone is unable to resist his smartphone's siren's song, he's responsible for picking up the check.
31. In big cities you always hear sirens all the time.
32. And the mermaid, or siren, will be freed from her circle.
33. The siren is the Greek variant, with similar beings found in Germanic and Celtic cultures.
34. People were rudely awakened by a siren just outside their window.
35. Quit work when the siren sounds.
36. Police cars, their sirens wailing, accompanied the lorries.
37. The horse spooked at the siren.
38. The fire engines were just pulling up, sirens blaring.
39. police cars with lights flashing and sirens blaring.
40. Remember that hearing a siren or tone alert radio does not mean you should evacuate.
41. The noise of the siren was deafening her.
42. The siren arrives somewhere at the front of the bus.
43. In big cities you hear police sirens all the time.
44. Sirens sounded an end to the red alert.
45. He depicts her as a siren who has drawn him to his ruin.
46. We walk for about an hour and a half, and then if we can resist the siren sound of the pub—which we usually can't—we come home.
47. The government must resist the siren voices calling for tax cuts.
48. Mary heard the penetrating siren of an ambulance.
49. It is helpful to use well-known ideas such as an ambulance siren or a gunshot because these sounds carry a lot of context with them.
50. Ambulances raced by with sirens wailing.
51. It sounds like an ambulance siren.
52. The sound of sirens was an omnipresent background noise in New York.