siren call
noun
: something that is very appealing and makes a person want to go somewhere or do something but that may have bad results
—often + of
They could not resist the siren call of fame and money.
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Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2024
An Eden all year round, but exceptionally verdant in March, Sri Lanka has a siren call that's hard to resist.
—Delilah Khomo, theweek, 10 Oct. 2024
Not to follow the siren call to reject those institutions out of some false hope that extreme weather will disappear.
—Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love served as an empowering siren call for solo female travelers the world over.
—Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
With a siren call for help issued in a Facebook post, Delk was soon leading an army of volunteers to collect donations of essential goods and organizing a system to distribute them.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 21 May 2024
Still, the minimum 25% raise over four years in new UAW contracts with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (owner of Fiat Chrysler) may prove a powerful siren call for nonunion autoworkers, who were averaging some $8 an hour less than established UAW workers even before the new contracts.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2024
To a college student who felt the siren call of journalism at a time when Watergate’s wake had not yet receded, an early lesson on the folly of idol worship arrived my senior year when Mr. Thompson spoke at my school.
—Billy Witz Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
But those people are increasingly answering the siren call of cheaper cost of living elsewhere.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
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Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2024
An Eden all year round, but exceptionally verdant in March, Sri Lanka has a siren call that's hard to resist.
—Delilah Khomo, theweek, 10 Oct. 2024
Not to follow the siren call to reject those institutions out of some false hope that extreme weather will disappear.
—Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
Photo : Viceroy Bali Eat, Pray, Love Your Way Across Italy, India, and Bali
Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love served as an empowering siren call for solo female travelers the world over.
—Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
With a siren call for help issued in a Facebook post, Delk was soon leading an army of volunteers to collect donations of essential goods and organizing a system to distribute them.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 21 May 2024
Still, the minimum 25% raise over four years in new UAW contracts with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (owner of Fiat Chrysler) may prove a powerful siren call for nonunion autoworkers, who were averaging some $8 an hour less than established UAW workers even before the new contracts.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2024
To a college student who felt the siren call of journalism at a time when Watergate’s wake had not yet receded, an early lesson on the folly of idol worship arrived my senior year when Mr. Thompson spoke at my school.
—Billy Witz Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
But those people are increasingly answering the siren call of cheaper cost of living elsewhere.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
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