eerily

Example Sentences

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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

Images of quarantined cruise passengers and officials in hazmat suits feel eerily reminiscent of the dozens of Covid-19 outbreaks that hit the cruise industry in early 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 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

Instead of explaining, Duane became eerily silent because directly behind C.C. was the wall of windows, and Duane could see the white fog moving in.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el