sirens

One of the most frightening moments in a car that doesn’t involve the actual screeching of brakes or the twisting of metal or the approach of sirens is suddenly noticing you are miles and miles farther along the road than you were the last time you noticed where you were and you have no memory of having covered the distance or of anything you saw between back there and here.

While typing this post I am closing six business deals, translating a poem by Neruda, preparing a complicated sauce for our dinner tonight, and changing the oil on my car 2009

One of the most frightening moments in a car that doesn’t involve the actual screeching of brakes or the twisting of metal or the approach of sirens is suddenly noticing you are miles and miles farther along the road than you were the last time you noticed where you were and you have no memory of having covered the distance or of anything you saw between back there and here.

Lance Mannion: 2009

The neighborhood assumed the sirens were the police.

Our Neighbors J.A. Pak 2011

So, whenever we hear those sirens, that is a good thing.

CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007 2007

At first, I thought the sirens might be a side effect of the jet lag, but when people started gathering around the windows, I quit installing my new laptop port to watch for myself.

Fire! 2004

At first, I thought the sirens might be a side effect of the jet lag, but when people started gathering around the windows, I quit installing my new laptop port to watch for myself.

December 2004 2004

Of these the enemy have two on motor tricycles, and it is understood that the call of their sirens is a signal that they are in action.

At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

Their isles might be called sirens 'isles, not merely from the attraction they exerted on the passing mariner, but from the perils that awaited him on shore.

In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Use it to create rapidly repeating musical phrases, grungy riffs, retro computer game effects, rolling basslines, off-the-wall rhythmic patterns, dub sirens, weird sci-fi effects, plus sounds yet undiscovered ....

MATRIXSYNTH 2010

Medical equipment and fire equipment are sold such as sirens, lights, latex gloves, breathing equipment.

PERSONALIZING UNIFORMS » Sociological Images 2008