siren
Example Sentences
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As helicopters circled overhead, sirens descended on her suburb, and people ran screaming down her street on 14 December, Mary felt a grim sense of deja vu.
From BBC
Not literally — unless you, too, are vulnerable to the siren song of pressed bread — but by staying open to a new-to-you tool that might gently reroute how you cook, even in a small way.
From Salon
He was one of the few Western reporters to stay in Baghdad, according to AP, with one of his first broadcasts from the city being interrupted by the sounds of missiles and air-raid sirens.
From BBC
We could hear police sirens and the roar of helicopters.
From BBC
Screams, honking car horns and ambulance sirens fill the air in the next chaotic minutes.
From BBC
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