Example Sentences

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Ahead, the former federal pen loomed forbidding and drab, luring visitors toward the rocks, sirenlike in its perverse appeal.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

Shakespeare’s play of magic, illusion and music has exerted a sirenlike power over composers from Purcell to Sibelius, from Ligeti to Berio.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2012

Then he turned up the amplifier volume, producing a sirenlike screaming sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

The transmitter emits a sirenlike radio beacon on preset frequencies, enabling rescuers to home in on survivors.

From Time Magazine Archive

They communicated with one another by means of sirenlike howls, running up and down the scale from one note to another.

From The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)