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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Heck, Bernard Herrmann’s eerie theme song alone will outlive humanity.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
And there was an eerie atmosphere with fewer than 4,000 fans in the 26,000-capacity stadium in Heraklion, Crete.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Kent turned to illustrator Alex Juhasz to create the handmade book, drawing inspiration from the eerie silhouetted animation of German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger from the 1920s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Now the nine of them sat on the floor in one of their two rooms, one for men and one for women, foil pans of halal food laid on towels, in eerie silence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
A bit farther in, torches flickered on the cave walls, creating what would have been an eerie effect if it hadn’t been so transparently designed to be.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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
An eerier kind of togetherness emerged in John Jasperse’s “Visitation,” for Doug LeCours, Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
Filmed by director of photography Bojan Bazelli, “The Ring” adopts an unnatural greenish-turquoise-cyan hue that makes Seattle and the apartment complex appear eerier than its real-life counterpart between First Avenue, Seneca Street and Western Avenue.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Even eerier was the lead story, about Adolf Hitler and the rise of his Third Reich.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021
They are the mysterious voices of the woodland which change at about this time often to an eerier and lonelier note.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
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
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
Every winter I reread — sometimes for myself, sometimes with my children — Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising,” surely one of the eeriest novels there is.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
The eeriest phase of the investigation began when the police, holding their flickering lanterns high, entered the hotel basement, a cavern of brick and timber measuring 50 by 165 feet.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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