How to Use siren song in a Sentence
siren song
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So what made the siren song of the marathon too much to resist?
—Micki Fahner, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
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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
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As soon as the weather heats up, the siren song of blonde hair only grows stronger.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 June 2023
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And, of course, there must be chile verde, the siren song of Sonoran grilling.
—Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
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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
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The siren songs of wildflowers come in blue and orange and red.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023
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But the real siren song here is not ego but the irresistible pull of swag.
—Katie Rife, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
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For some people, coffee’s siren song is what coaxes them out of bed.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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And the splash of water would be a siren song for metro Phoenix residents.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
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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
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After a decade of food writing, Hall succumbed to the siren song of wine.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
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All that balmy weather is like a siren song for home cooks, eager to break out the soup pots and preheat an oven.
—Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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The siren song of Lennon/McCartney once again drowns her out.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2022
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The siren song of al pastor and carne asada sizzling on grills proved irresistible.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
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So, some of this is novelty and the siren song of technology.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
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Like a siren song, Brothers on the boardwalk calls to me every morning.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 24 Aug. 2022
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Greed, on the other hand, is the seductive siren song of the financial world.
—Wayne Anderman, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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But over the decades, the French King Bridge came to emit another kind of siren song.
—Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
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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
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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
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That lure may be more of a siren song (Asness would likely argue so), but that’s up for debate.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
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In a moment of personal and collective crisis, the siren song of a self-help book is strong.
—Eleanor Cummins, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
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Yet this is no time to lose faith, retreat and succumb to the siren song of American decline.
—WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
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There’s more to it than that, of course, including how to actually resist the siren song of should.
—Anna Borges, SELF, 28 Dec. 2020
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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
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