Problem for Odysseus

Usage examples of sirens.

All through the dark canyons of Manhattan there was the screeching and wailing of sirens, the endless smashing of windows, the report of gunfire, and a kind of grating roar, like a demonic beast crunching glass between its teeth, as the panicking population screamed and howled in a frenzy of destruction and despair.

He had heard the sirens, and Navy had been upstairs, so he could have untied her and gotten her out.

He listened for the sounds of someone above him on the dock, but there was nothing, just the two sirens that were getting a lot closer.

He would have heard the sirens, too, and known that anyone running down the streets of the Navy Yard would be seen.

Outside, the sirens were getting louder again, and this time a cop car came blasting right by the entrance to the factory and hurtled on down the street.

Then the sirens began to wind down, leaving a galaxy of blue strobe lights flickering through the skylight windows.

A police car with sirens and lights going full blast went by him as he rounded into College Green.

McGuire had heard police sirens at intervals while she studied in her room.

They were the two most powerful Sirens the Empire had ever produced, and they would not yield.

Emergency sirens and warnings were sounding everywhere, overlapping each other.

Then Cerise looked at her, dark eyes wary, and they both heard the sound of sirens, distant now, but coming quickly closer.

Just like gunshots and drugs and dead bodies on the street below, just like sirens and screams and dogs howling in the night, just like televisions blasting and cats screeching and doors slamming and toilets flushing.

Outside, as the doors swung open, the ambulance sirens echoed through the warm night streets of Miami.

The whole city echoed with the endless warbling of police and fire sirens, and the crack of spasmodic shooting.

There were no sirens, no fire tenders, and no one sedmed to be attempting to put the blaze out.