noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
song
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Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song , she picked it up.
voice
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This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region.
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Mr. Sheerman Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her?
■ VERB
hear
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All you ever hear are bass-lines and sirens , sirens and bass-lines.
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At night the neighborhood hummed with air-conditioners; no one would hear sirens or alarms.
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We hear police sirens across the silence, bouncing off the shrouded Louisiana forests.
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When you hear a siren , that means a police car, a fire engine, or an ambulance is going somewhere.
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Suppose that I believe that there is a police car in the road outside because I can hear a police siren .
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Miguel could hear distant sirens , muffled screams, the chink and crackle of falling glass.
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Before long he would hear the sirens of approaching police cars come at my summons to arrest him for being off limits.
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He could hear the siren , was vaguely conscious of a flickering blue light.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At six, he sounds the siren on his way home to supper and usually is a few minutes fast.
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Bet you didn't know, for instance, that there's a nuclear siren right here in the village?
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I fall asleep to the drone of sirens and helicopters overhead.
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I howl with the blaring of the air raid sirens.
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In the distance a siren wailed.
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There's this siren going behind me, getting louder and louder, and I turn round to have a look.
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Voices, music, sirens, horns were louder, brasher, more frantic.
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With sirens blaring and amber lights flashing, the squad cars slewed to a halt at the rear of a war-torn Cadillac.