Example sentences for: siren

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

  • 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."

  • Early hip-hop was mostly party music, but it developed a political message through groups like Public Enemy . Tracks like P.E.'s "" gave hip-hop the urgency of an air-raid siren.

  • Our political process is currently dominated by those who are enticed by the siren song of the market theorists and turn a deaf ear to the health policy scientists who plead for health care justice.

  • At the same time, though, no one seems to be actually selling their stock, perhaps because everyone's succumbed to the siren song of long-term investing or perhaps because everyone always thinks they'll be the ones who can get out just before the crash.

  • 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.


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