How to Use siren song in a Sentence

siren song

noun
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  • The Celtics shouldn’t be sucked in by the siren song of Durant.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Jonas, too, was not immune to the siren song of #brands.
    — E.j. Dickson, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • And, of course, there must be chile verde, the siren song of Sonoran grilling.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But the thrill of invention can amount to a siren song.
    — Kevin M. Esvelt, Slate Magazine, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Kimbrell isn’t immune to the siren song of such pieces.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But over the decades, the French King Bridge came to emit another kind of siren song.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • The intake sound reminds us of the sounds of our youth and draws in our adult selves like a siren song.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
  • As soon as the weather heats up, the siren song of blonde hair only grows stronger.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 June 2023
  • That siren song of the sea does continue to draw them to it and away from their home and their lives on the shore.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2017
  • The siren songs of wildflowers come in blue and orange and red.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023
  • But the growls and clicks of those on the land were beckoning them with a deadly siren song.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The siren song of Lennon/McCartney once again drowns her out.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The paper is one of the first to show that the glow of a whole city can act as a siren song for insects from far and wide.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Her mouth, open in a lament or siren song, has the red lips of one of de Kooning’s women.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • After a decade of food writing, Hall succumbed to the siren song of wine.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The siren song of Sweden is that none of that is necessary.
    — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2020
  • And the splash of water would be a siren song for metro Phoenix residents.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That makes sense—the siren song of its Adult Easy Bake Oven vibe is already hard enough to resist.
    — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The Right mustn’t succumb to the siren song of isolationism.
    — Tim Chapman, National Review, 20 Aug. 2023
  • There is no place like it, its siren song irresistible to many who hear it.
    — Jenna Russell Sophie Park, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • As seen in the case of Zayn, boyfriends of lovers of tiny sunglasses are not immune to their siren song.
    — Julie Ma, The Cut, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Take the Mango and Arugula Salad, a siren song of greens if there ever was one.
    — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Like a siren song, Brothers on the boardwalk calls to me every morning.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Her siren song of a stare, the way her eyes ping-pong across an iPhone screen one second and invite empathy the next.
    — WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The lumpy, grey compression socks call my name like a mermaid’s taunting siren song to a weary sailor.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The real Little Richard kept bursting out; rock ‘n’ roll was the siren song that kept calling him.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • But despite rising prices, the lure of an escape (complete with pool) is a siren song to the lockdown-weary.
    — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2020
  • For some people, coffee’s siren song is what coaxes them out of bed.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The siren song of al pastor and carne asada sizzling on grills proved irresistible.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Every new technology is a siren song for modelers—and each its own false dawn.
    — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 2024

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