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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Thankfully, Curry did not allow any eerie rumors to deter him from securing the home, which was originally built in 1922, having been designed by acclaimed architect Stiles O. Clements.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Even Cyrus’ freakishly long nails and eerie voice are derivative of other horror movie boogeymen, but without their grasp of the uncannily malevolent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The eerie mood is accentuated by an introductory film projected on the distant stone and a twangy voice intoning excerpts from the Lincoln speeches etched in the atrium above ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
That is until Thatcher ratchets up the eerie tension tenfold while Refn builds his gorgeous fantasy around her.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Every night, regularly, at nine, at twelve, at three, they lifted a nocturnal song, a weird and eerie chant, in which it was Buck’s delight to join.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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
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
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
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
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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