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
But they also give eerie glimpses of conference rooms and cubicles unchanged since IBM left a decade ago, as if employees had fled the daily grind one day and never returned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Sheppard described the house as being "silent" and "very eerie" when he arrived.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The downdraft arrived, that eerie second before a big storm hits, just before the wind swoops through and brings in the hard rain.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
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 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
Eerie it was in the dim light, eerier it was now in the dark, with those hoarse mutterings from beneath, and those thunderous reverberations pealing at irregular intervals through the unknown spaces above.
From In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Glanville, Ernest
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
It was one of the eeriest and uncomfortablest feelings I ever had, watching a boy lead cheers for me.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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