Example sentences for: siren

How can you use “siren” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

  • Still, the fact that evolutionary psychologists don't view desertion as standard male procedure vaporizes what Gould considers one of his killer arguments: "Any man who has fiercely loved his little child--including most fathers, I trust--knows that no siren song from distinctive[ly male] genes or hormones can overcome this drive for nurturing behavior shared with the child's mother."

  • The nightingale Keats heard in a garden in May 1819 was not the music of poetry, but the sound of death, a siren call to suicide.

  • The issue digs up gossip from Hollywood's ancient history: A silent-film siren says Buster Keaton was "sexy," but Charlie Chaplin didn't know how to seduce women.

  • Ransom challenges you to get from his page on von Hayek to this page celebrating movie siren Salma Hayek, star of Desperado , Fools Rush In , and the forthcoming Dogma .


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