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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The mixture of two pianos and harmonium creates a timbre that somehow manages to seem both eerie and comfortable, and the silences that surround the sounds are as important as the sounds themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“It certainly is an eerie coincidence that the big winners these days are Qualcomm, Intel and Cisco,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
In the nine-minute short, a young cameraman falls into what appears to be an empty furniture store with an eerie atmosphere: a seemingly endless series of rooms covered in yellow wallpaper and buzzing fluorescent lights.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
The double top at $200 showed eerie similarities as both the week ending Nov. 7, 2025, and last week recorded bearish engulfing candles closing at the lows of their respective weekly ranges.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Outside, a spring storm raged, and Cook had set out candles for when the electricity inevitably went—the lights were already flickering in an eerie and unsettling manner.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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