How to Use eerie in a Sentence
eerie
adjective- The flames cast an eerie glow.
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It’s eerie, and a cool look for the game’s most recent hero.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
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Rich dark-blue walls capture the eerie calm of ocean depths.
—Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
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The vibe is bright, the riffs are crunchy, but something eerie lurks beneath the song.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
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The boats’ green lights, used to attract squid, cast an eerie glow in the night sky.
—Chao Deng, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
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Most eerie of all was the wildfire smoke that oranged the sky.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
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Even when spent, the cones can cling to branches in eerie black clumps.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
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Stress just seems to melt away in the face of such expanse and eerie quiet.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
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Look up, down, and around at the landscape as it is bathed in eerie light and shadows.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
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Every day, life in Russia seems to serve up eerie echoes of the film.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
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The air won’t stop filling with acrid smoke, and the sky has turned from blue to an eerie orange.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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The body horror lingering at the fringes of this is very eerie.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Ghosts aside, parts of the Fairmont felt downright eerie.
—Danielle Harling, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
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The night was filled with that eerie light that only molten rock can produce.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
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The quiet was almost eerie pulling three tons up a 25% grade.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2021
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But in a house a block from the lake, there was no holiday cheer -- only the eerie sound of a phone off the hook.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
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Over the next two days, an eerie calm took over the city as some shops and restaurants reopened.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
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Instead of feeling like a shot of his old life, school felt eerie and silent.
—New York Times, 13 May 2021
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An eerie presence in the house, however, haunts the men to the edge of sanity.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
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After all the sirens and the yelling, the midafternoon silence was eerie, jarring.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
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One eerie night, Shauna saw the group feasting on her child.
—Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
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The house was quiet, and the office seemed smaller, eerie and devoid of air.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2021
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The eerie moment fired up his base and propelled him to power.
—Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 17 July 2024
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This year, the standout show is eerie in a different way.
—Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
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Horror lovers, get ready, as your first glimpse at the eerie new series Teacup awaits.
—Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
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In the third, slow movement, held notes emerge and submerge to produce an eerie melody.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
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The journey takes her through those eerie woods, where the car suddenly conks out.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
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Beyond the canyon, there may be blizzards and bears but, in this eerie oasis of calm, the broth is perfect, meaty and rich.
—Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
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The festival is still centered in Potsdamer Platz, an eerie dead zone in the center of Berlin.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, those of us on Earth will witness the same event as a total lunar eclipse, turning the moon a deep, eerie red.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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