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  • We waited panting, and we could slooshy the sirening millicents going east, so we knew we were all right now.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • All the time we were sirening off to the rozz-shop, me being wedged between two millicents and being given the odd thump and malenky tolchock by these smecking bullies.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Teh hook and ladder truck from Firemans Company Elebenty comes from out of nowhere, sirens a-sirening and lights a-flashing.

    MOMMMMM!!! Bring - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The monster crawled out of the bedroom, its hissing cry sirening louder.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • Almost at once, the car tilted just perceptibly to -- the left, and the screaming of the winds between its edges and the deck shot up the scale, sirening in and out of the soundless-dogwhistle range with an eeriness which set Helmuth's teeth on edge.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

  • Two other calls -- both in office buildings -- took up only an hour of his time, and a taxicab delivered him at Police Headquarters just as the factory whistles were sirening the news that it was twelve o'clock.

    Murder at Bridge Anne Austin

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