How to Use siren song in a Sentence

siren song

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024