Example Sentences

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And few things generate awe like watching the moon blot out the sun and plunge a sunny day into erie darkness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024

She was watching them with fascinated eyes, though not daring to withdraw her head from under the coat, when she heard a ghastly yell from beneath, and an erie face appeared above the stairway.

From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis

What footpaths are made and how brode Annoiance too much to be borne, With horse and with cattle what rode is made thorowe erie man's come.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)