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
I see how they seem electrified by every image of smoke rising over an emirate and every siren sounding on an American base.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
"We saw the roof collapsing… A blast of air came towards us and brought all this black dust… And the siren started."
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
At last we hear the wail of a siren.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
Vocabulary lists containing siren
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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"The War Works Hard" by Dunya Mikhail
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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