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.
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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
That is until Thatcher ratchets up the eerie tension tenfold while Refn builds his gorgeous fantasy around her.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Wednesday's full eclipse may be something many of us remember for a long time: the special glasses, the colanders, and the eerie shadowing of the sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swathe of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
From somewhere up ahead the young mouse could hear the sound of dripping water; the musical echoing plops made an eerie noise in the sinister stillness of the passage.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
From The Carpenter’s version of “Superstar” during the show, the finale shifted to the eerier cover by Sonic Youth.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
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 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
It was the eeriest week yet in the yearslong saga that is the unraveling of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
From Slate ● May 13, 2023
The eeriest Gamache novel yet, “A World of Curiosities” is also one of Penny’s most intricately plotted and harrowing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 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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