How to Use eerie in a Sentence

eerie

adjective

• The flames cast an eerie glow.
• It’s eerie, and a cool look for the game’s most recent hero.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Rich dark-blue walls capture the eerie calm of ocean depths.
  — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The vibe is bright, the riffs are crunchy, but something eerie lurks beneath the song.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• The boats’ green lights, used to attract squid, cast an eerie glow in the night sky.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• Most eerie of all was the wildfire smoke that oranged the sky.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
• Even when spent, the cones can cling to branches in eerie black clumps.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
• Stress just seems to melt away in the face of such expanse and eerie quiet.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Every day, life in Russia seems to serve up eerie echoes of the film.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The body horror lingering at the fringes of this is very eerie.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
• Ghosts aside, parts of the Fairmont felt downright eerie.
  — Danielle Harling, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
• The night was filled with that eerie light that only molten rock can produce.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• The quiet was almost eerie pulling three tons up a 25% grade.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2021
• 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
• Over the next two days, an eerie calm took over the city as some shops and restaurants reopened.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• Instead of feeling like a shot of his old life, school felt eerie and silent.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• An eerie presence in the house, however, haunts the men to the edge of sanity.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
• After all the sirens and the yelling, the midafternoon silence was eerie, jarring.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
• One eerie night, Shauna saw the group feasting on her child.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
• The house was quiet, and the office seemed smaller, eerie and devoid of air.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2021
• The eerie moment fired up his base and propelled him to power.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 17 July 2024
• This year, the standout show is eerie in a different way.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
• Horror lovers, get ready, as your first glimpse at the eerie new series Teacup awaits.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
• In the third, slow movement, held notes emerge and submerge to produce an eerie melody.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• The journey takes her through those eerie woods, where the car suddenly conks out.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• 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
• The festival is still centered in Potsdamer Platz, an eerie dead zone in the center of Berlin.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Mar 2025