Example Sentences

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Hasan Mahmud Arafat, 25, a university student who volunteered to help at the hospital, said all beds in the burn units were full and that ambulance sirens had blared all night.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2022

Sirens had blared through her Santa Rosa neighborhood earlier in the day, as mandatory evacuations were put in place.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2019

Jenkins urged Joe to get in the ambulance that had blared onto the grounds, but Joe brushed the doc off, desperate to make sure Lovely made it out alive.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2018

Next thing he knew, his wife Elizabeth was shaking him awake in wild excitement: the loudspeaker had blared his name.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now—this evening—a hidden voice had blared out that old hidden story.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie