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siren call

n. (alternative namesiren song)

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siren call

n. the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous; "he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness" [syn: siren song]

Usage examples of "siren call".

He had nearly gone under, lured by the siren call of adrenaline and danger, until nothing was real but a world where treachery was the norm, multiple identities were the rule, and death was the sole judge of who won and who lost.

The ram would happily go on forever, screeching up more mounds of sand with each miss, but Chester had a siren call to answer.

The quarter deck was wet and treacherous, and he gripped the railing fiercely as if the sea suggested some siren call to him.

And the blue Victorian house sat down the street whispering its siren call at him.

He heard the siren call and part of him responded, edging closer and closer to a surcease for which he surely longed.

And she did hear something, as they all were beginning to, a siren call, drawing them across the water.

Its siren call was as subtle as Yulash had been, yet much stronger, like the compunction to kill Winefiddle and Giogi.