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Examples of siren song in a Sentence
the opportunity for fame and fortune is the siren song that has long lured the ambitious to the big city
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While summer is all about low-maintenance styles, hair with shape and sharp contours sings a particular siren song in autumn.
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Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2023
That might not be as true for other musical acts that might follow this siren song and try to emulate this model.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
And a tiny but meaningful percentage of veterans heed that extremist siren song, abandoning allegiance to the United States in exchange for their dream of a white ethnostate.
—Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
Yet scholars in the United States noted that while countries around the world were falling to authoritarianism in the 1930s, the United States, sailing between the siren songs of fascism on the one side and communism on the other, had somehow avoided destruction.
—Heather Cox Richardson, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023
Kimbrell isn’t immune to the siren song of such pieces.
—Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
The Right mustn’t succumb to the siren song of isolationism.
—Tim Chapman, National Review, 20 Aug. 2023
For some people, coffee’s siren song is what coaxes them out of bed.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
The real Little Richard kept bursting out; rock ‘n’ roll was the siren song that kept calling him.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
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Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2023
That might not be as true for other musical acts that might follow this siren song and try to emulate this model.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
And a tiny but meaningful percentage of veterans heed that extremist siren song, abandoning allegiance to the United States in exchange for their dream of a white ethnostate.
—Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
Yet scholars in the United States noted that while countries around the world were falling to authoritarianism in the 1930s, the United States, sailing between the siren songs of fascism on the one side and communism on the other, had somehow avoided destruction.
—Heather Cox Richardson, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023
Kimbrell isn’t immune to the siren song of such pieces.
—Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
The Right mustn’t succumb to the siren song of isolationism.
—Tim Chapman, National Review, 20 Aug. 2023
For some people, coffee’s siren song is what coaxes them out of bed.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
The real Little Richard kept bursting out; rock ‘n’ roll was the siren song that kept calling him.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1568, in the meaning defined above
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“Siren song.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/siren%20song. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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