Example sentences for: sirens

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

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

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

  • 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."

  • Blaring sirens and horrendous crime.


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