How to Use uncanny in a Sentence

uncanny

adjective

• She has an uncanny sense of direction.
• She had an uncanny resemblance to someone I had seen before.
• The youngest among them seemed to have the uncanny ability to float above the stress and anguish of the place.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2019
• But Nemo isn’t creepy, Pikachu doesn’t give you the willies, and Big Bird is nowhere near the precipice of the uncanny valley.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• And there was this uncanny strangeness through the whole film.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2023
• The Crown, who embodied the princess with an uncanny grace.
  — Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 27 Jan. 2021
• Add a mustache to your Elf on the Shelf and the resemblance to Queen's lead singer is uncanny.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 28 Oct. 2022
• The folding chair has the uncanny ability to render the crowd in any room a group of equals.
  — Tyler Watamanuk, Curbed, 3 May 2018
• Stu doesn’t know how to express his need for love, yet his grudge against the world is uncanny.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Apr. 2022
• In fact, some of the parallels between the bomb and our new AI brains are uncanny.
  — Kc Cole, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Has an uncanny sense of where all his teammates are on the ice and how to get them the puck in dangerous spots.
  — Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• Both of them wrote novels with uncanny, weird stuff in them.
  — Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2022
• That being said, some of her hunches about his moves around the state are uncanny.
  — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanities, 26 Apr. 2018
• Florals aren’t just for spring, but the season has the uncanny ability to draw us to them.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2024
• But James is nothing if not resilient, and his instincts, on and off the court, tend to be uncanny.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• He is well known for his free spirit and uncanny sense of humor.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 May 2018
• There is no uncanny valley, just a bored-looking avatar who’s about to fire you.
  — John Brandon, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
• Grande has been known to do an uncanny impression of the Burlesque icon.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2021
• Anyone who was here in the spring of 2020 will remember the empty streets, the uncanny New York of lockdown.
  — Curbed, 7 Aug. 2023
• Still, phrased the right way, the thought has an insistent, uncanny magnetism.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• The lyrics, too, convey an uncanny perspective on the world.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• This gave his Black figure an uncanny depth and richness of tone.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• But the work is really all about the sky and its uncanny connection with the earth below.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2022
• While he is not Dua in disguise or vice versa, the result of the video is pretty uncanny.
  — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 12 Feb. 2020
• The accuracy is uncanny, from the delivery to the beauty details — the makeup, the hair, and even the nails.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 31 Oct. 2023
• Dan Taberski’s latest project kicks off with a dash of the uncanny.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
• The show’s license to be uncanny is endorsed by the headlines, argues its star.
  — Steve Dollar, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• An uncanny number of motors seem to choose that spot to stop working.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
• But, as Caillat watched, certain plot points struck him as uncanny.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• More than just funny and charming, her creatures can be inappropriate, overtly silly, beyond cute all the way to uncanny.
  — Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024