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How to use eerie in a sentence

34 example sentences · adjective, noun

Eerie means inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird. Example: “The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.”

Examples of eerie by meaning

adjectiveInspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.

  • The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
  • The whole city is immersed in a dystopian-looking smog: urban streets in sepia, emptier than usual, bathed in an eerie quiet.2023 June 7, Samira Asma-Sadeque, “‘It’s too much’: New Yorkers don masks or stay inside amid smog crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

adjectiveFrightened, timid.

  • 'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growing eerie.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

nounAn eerie creature or thing.

  • I tell you it's weirdsville down there, a spaced-out botanical Twilight Zone of creepies, crawlies, eeries, and ghastlies.2013, Robert Silverberg, “A Science-Fiction Garden”, in Reflections and Refractions
  • If circumstances were even slightly different, I would allow my eeries to descend upon you and do as they pleased.2021, Steve Conoboy, Refrain Of The Fallen

More sentences with eerie

  • As we drove along the driveway, the trees approaching the house seemed more eerie.From the entry approach
  • Her whimsical Halloween decorations include dancing skeletons who sing an eerie song.From the entry skeleton
  • The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.From the entry chill
  • The synthesiser produced an eerie, voicelike sound.From the entry voicelike
  • It’s an aesthetic that embraces sadness, strangeness, and the eerie magic woven through dark fairy-tale imagery.2025 August 20, Sterling Rhyn, “25+ Welwitschia Goth (whimsical emo) Crochet Patterns to Make”, in Cactus Lady Creation, archived from the…. From the entry Welwitschia Goth
  • A loud screeching sound buzzsaws the eerie silence of the day.2014, Cody Toye, Evolution. From the entry buzzsaw
  • Smoke hung in the air and mixed with suspended particles of debris, creating an eerie gray curtain.2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148. From the entry ground zero
  • The tone is brittle and morbid, emphasizing the eerie grotesquerie of Albert Giraud's poems.2009 January 12, Steve Smith, “Worlds Apart: Harmonies Earthbound and Lunar”, in New York Times. From the entry grotesquerie
  • Now it’s ghostly quiet and a bit eerie.2024 July 19, John Kostrzewa, “Beach Pond Camp was a haven for city kids in the 1930s. Now you can explore its eerie ruins”, in The…. From the entry arts and crafts
  • Some ways that parents have responded to these supposed child-swaps also have eerie echoes of the changeling legends.2023, Naomi Klein, “Autism and the Anti-Vax Prequel”, in Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry changeling
  • Leonhard and another American took an eerie four-hour drive from Songzi City to Wuhan airport to get out.2020 February 6, Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield, William Wan, “For Americans, a nightmare escaping Wuhan, then 14 days of…. From the entry Songzi
  • He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 231. From the entry caster
  • A damp mist filled the room and the musty-coloured books that lined the walls were bathed in eerie sea-light.2012, Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf, →ISBN. From the entry sea-light
  • This book’s culture clashes are every bit as memorable as its eerie prefigurings of the present financial meltdowns.2009 January 15, Janet Maslin, “A Monetary Horror Story That Looks Like Today’s”, in New York Times. From the entry prefiguring
  • They crane their cigaretted hands to their mouths in unison and share the same eerie glow of suffocated defeat.2008, Ibi Kaslik, The Angel Riots, Penguin Canada, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry cigaretted
  • A further wave of fluorescent balloons gently deflated, exhaling into miniature harmonicas to breathe an eerie music of the spheres.1996 October 17, Judith Palmer, “Culture: EVENT The Incident ICA, London”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 17 Jan 2016. From the entry music of the spheres
  • Somehow, in this eerie age of unhistory, the whole meaning and purpose of life has been twisted around, warped and distorted.1971, Mortimer Lipsky, Never Again War: The Case for World Government, page 168. From the entry unhistory
  • They are the eerie half-human attendants at anything that is new on Broadway — the dead-pans of the Theatre Guild openings.1936, Edmund Wilson, Travels in Two Democracies, page 51. From the entry dead-pan
  • The water gets its eerie hue from sunglint, an optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects directly from the water’s surface into the camera lens.2016 October 29, “Eye me a river”, in New Scientist, number 3097, page 27. From the entry sunglint
  • “Hey—” The way animals—men and dogs—foresense a great act of weather is in a sudden confusion of terms, an eerie loss of measurement.2013, Hortense Calisher, Mysteries of Motion: A Novel. From the entry foresense
  • The boat's deck was covered in moss, and its warm, sallow water was filled with lichens that gave off an eerie green glow.2011, Jacob Murphy, Guardians, page 44. From the entry sallow
  • Indris are known for their calls, some of which are truly eerie and can be heard for miles in the dense undergrowth.2011, William Powell, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, “Knowing Our Collegial Relations”, in How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in…. From the entry indri
  • The paperbarks and floodgums that shroud us look eerie and ethereal in the silver light, and I find myself matching Jasper's step.2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 5. From the entry floodgum
  • Luckily, though, the sumptuous, eerie look and mood of the movie make it possible to ignore this dispiriting and superfluous adherence to convention.2005 July 15, A. O. Scott, “Looking for the Candy, Finding a Back Story”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry dispiriting
  • Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon. From the entry crinkly
  • The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas” on the Internet.2013 November 14, Joey Dussault, “The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World”, in Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern…. From the entry creepypasta
  • Shirley Anderson does a fine job with this seemingly simpy character, capturing Therese's twisted wisdom and making her seem eerie and radiant with joy at the same time.1992 March 20, Maura Troester, “All Souls Day”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry simpy
  • In Donetsk, in an eerie echo of events in Crimea, separatists went one step further and have now proclaimed their own independent Donetsk People’s Republic and asked Russia for support.2014 April 7, Stefan Wolff, Tatyana Malyarenko, “Ukraine veers closer to collapse as activists in Donetsk proclaim ‘people’s republic’”…. From the entry Donetsk People's Republic
  • The play's mysterious quality is superbly complemented by Jeff Bauer's set--a rundown kitchen surrounded by an abstract, scaffoldlike frame that evokes a prison or a cage--and Michael Rourke's eerie lighting.1988 May 6, Albert Williams, “A Whistle in the Dark”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016. From the entry scaffoldlike

Meaning of eerie

  1. adjective Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
  2. adjective Frightened, timid.
  3. noun An eerie creature or thing.

Full definition of eerie

Questions about eerie in a sentence

How do you use eerie in a sentence?
Eerie is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.”
What is a short sentence with eerie?
“The synthesiser produced an eerie, voicelike sound.”
What does eerie mean?
Eerie means inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.

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