eerily

Example Sentences

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The beeping of damaged cars and the crackle of downed electrical wires echoed through streets that were otherwise eerily quiet.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

One Moneyist reader has been through something eerily similar.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

Robert Altemeyer, a Canadian psychologist, described such people in 2006 in an eerily prophetic manner:

From Salon • May 18, 2026

Lacking leads in the Virginia bank robbery, a police detective turned to what one judge in the case called a “groundbreaking investigative tool ... enabling the relentless collection of eerily precise location data.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

Of all the catastrophic fates that can befall you in the out-of-doors, perhaps none is more eerily unpredictable than hypothermia.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson