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.
Example Sentences
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That year, the city's skies turned an eerie orange, with the air quality index reaching a dangerous 465.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
These accounts collide with the present era’s eerie uncertainty at every turn, making for an altogether riveting, cyclical listening experience that tells her life’s story without smoothing its contradictions.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Sheppard described the house as being "silent" and "very eerie" when he arrived.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The tour’s eerie imagery was created in collaboration with fine art photographer Gregory Crewdson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Despite this, however, there was an eerie calmness to the room.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
From The Carpenter’s version of “Superstar” during the show, the finale shifted to the eerier cover by Sonic Youth.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 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
They are the mysterious voices of the woodland which change at about this time often to an eerier and lonelier note.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
The eeriest costume this Halloween season would be Aunt Gladys, with her odd copper wig, oversized sunglasses, blue eyeshadow, and smeary red lipstick.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
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
The eeriest Gamache novel yet, “A World of Curiosities” is also one of Penny’s most intricately plotted and harrowing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 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 phase of the investigation began when the police, holding their flickering lanterns high, entered the hotel basement, a cavern of brick and timber measuring 50 by 165 feet.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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