eerie
Frequently Asked Questions
- The house was so eerie once we’d moved all our stuff out—like it was a different place altogether.
- At dawn, there was an eerie silence over the lake, and the strange mist made it even eerier.
- Walking among the mannequins in the abandoned department was too eerie for me.
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The South later resumed border loudspeaker broadcasts for the first time in six years, including K-pop and international news, while the North began transmitting strange, eerie sounds across the frontier, unsettling South Korean residents.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Her statements always seemed misaligned with the evidence, as if she were so convinced of her company’s virtue that she didn’t care about the eerie dissonance between her reality and the world’s.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
And there was an eerie atmosphere with fewer than 4,000 fans in the 26,000-capacity stadium in Heraklion, Crete.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Kent turned to illustrator Alex Juhasz to create the handmade book, drawing inspiration from the eerie silhouetted animation of German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger from the 1920s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
A beautiful theory will be simple, compact, and spare; it will give a sense of completeness and often an eerie sense of symmetry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Schlossberg, we should mention here, is Kennedy’s cousin once removed, which adds an even eerier aura to the story.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024
Filmed by director of photography Bojan Bazelli, “The Ring” adopts an unnatural greenish-turquoise-cyan hue that makes Seattle and the apartment complex appear eerier than its real-life counterpart between First Avenue, Seneca Street and Western Avenue.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Even eerier was the lead story, about Adolf Hitler and the rise of his Third Reich.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021
The one-set naturalistic drama and the flat-out comedy are mostly not represented, each having evolved into something eerier and more conceptual.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
The house seemed eerier than ever, full of subdued complaints and whisperings.
From Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
With worries about the spread of gun ownership in his head, Fogerty devised one of his eeriest productions for this swampy psych-rock number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
In The Times of London, Fisher wrote that Hrusa’s conducting of “Lohengrin” “cannily distills the eeriest sonorities of the score, highlighting its bleak beauty.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
Otherwise, the town’s eeriest feature is its isolation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022
Plenty has been written about no crowds in sporting stadiums, but a Wales and England encounter in the Six Nations presented perhaps the eeriest atmosphere yet.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2021
The eeriest thing was a sound like thunder that rolled across the water.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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