Sample sentences for the GRE study word siren

1. Siren -- (a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; "Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song")
2. enchantress, temptress, siren, Delilah, femme fatale -- (a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive)
3. siren -- (a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound)
4. siren -- (an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning)
5. siren -- (eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills)