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

Instantly the force-shells ceased to hail toward them, and as they moved nearer a sirenlike signal broke from the cage.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry