siren
Example Sentences
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"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
"Some don't leave the shelters, don't leave their homes, because of the situation, because sometimes we have interceptions even before there is a siren and it's scary," Ohana explained.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
The sound caused another person nearby to think ICE was actually in the area, so they activated their siren too.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Keith Richards’s first sonic memory was a siren.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
It dawned on me then, clear and loud as a siren, that it mattered to Amari what Holly thought about him.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
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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