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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He juxtaposed beautiful balletic movement with eerie details, including an arm claw or a slightly tilted head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
That is until Thatcher ratchets up the eerie tension tenfold while Refn builds his gorgeous fantasy around her.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swathe of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Plymouth Astronomical Society chairman Chris Cooke said the darkness brought by the eclipse would be "eerie".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In fact, it was eerie how close it was to Lower Flying Point, where Vern lived.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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
Even eerier was the lead story, about Adolf Hitler and the rise of his Third Reich.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021
A stalwart of the LA psychedelic scene who has played with musicians including Ariel Pink and Tim Presley, Jack Name’s own music is eerier than that of his energetic peers.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019
The result is even eerier than the Alexa connected to a singing Big Mouth Billy Bass robot that made some waveslast year.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
I found myself growing eerier and eerier, for I dare say I was a little fevered by my restless night, and hurried to dress and get downstairs.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
He’s our reigning master of the macabre, whose ghostly imagination still transports us to the eeriest of places.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2023
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
Every winter I reread — sometimes for myself, sometimes with my children — Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising,” surely one of the eeriest novels there is.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
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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