Example sentences for: sirens

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

  • I'm more inclined to look for the sexpots of supernatural tradition: sirens, vampires, various enchantresses, those green ladies with rotten or serpentine lower bodies--what are they called?--who show up in (for example) Coleridge's "Christobel."

  • Burne-Jones explained, with characteristic vagueness and paranoia, that he had depicted "a sort of Sirenland--I don't know when or where--not Greek Sirens, but any sirens, anywhere, that lure men on to destruction."

  • Now a voicespells deliverance from your half-headstabbed by familiars of pain, old noisemakersof the embroidered white pillowcase,deliverance from Mass Avenue's repertorycompany of sirens, racing racing racing,you can't silence the one who's clashing cymbals, who's dropping syllables, who stokesthe day's rages, the one who always co-signsyour black pages--or can you?

  • Odysseus resisted the Sirens' call by lashing himself to the mast.

  • They are like rows of whores or slaves, odalisques or concubines, servants in Astarte's temple, Satan's demons as myriad sirens.


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