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How to use eerily in a sentence

11 example sentences · adverb

Eerily means in an eerie manner. Example: “Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own.”

Examples of eerily by meaning

adverbIn an eerie manner.

  • A woman whose fiancé died on Sept. 11, Maria Barreto-Mojica, said she noticed that something about yesterday had seemed eerily familiar.2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in New York Times

More sentences with eerily

  • Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own.From the entry uncounted
  • His parchment skin eerily displayed a blood-red nervation.From the entry nervation
  • In their newly acquired “meatsuits,” they return to the station and gaze eerily at the building.2013, Galen A. Foresman, Supernatural and Philosophy. From the entry meatsuit
  • Is your name Oscar Lois Anderson?' Her Dalek voice echoed eerily through the black emptiness of the warehouse.2005, P. D. Shelley, Sugar and Spice, page 171. From the entry Dalek voice
  • The sight of McGregor, creased but still boyish, returning to an eerily fogbound Hundred Acre Wood is calculated to well up eyes, and it works.2018 August 2, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney goes back to the Hundred Acre Wood in the wistful Christopher Robin”, in AV Club, archived…. From the entry creased
  • To the dreamer, a dream can seem at the time eerily indistinguishable from everyday consciousness yet, in retrospect, upon waking, so self-evidently different.2016, Susan Greenfield, “Dreaming”, in A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn till Dusk, London…. From the entry in the cold light of day
  • The ophidian beast began to glow eerily, and Aaron could discern a fine webwork of veins and capillaries running throughout the creature's body.2009, Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen, Simon Pulse, published 2003, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry ophidian
  • An old Franklin stove sat in a corner of the porch; above it a hat-rack mirror caught the moon and shone eerily.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry ramshackle
  • In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughingly quips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club. From the entry quip
  • Though both are virgins, Violet develops a crush on a dapper, eerily suave student at N.Y.U. who moonlights as a club promoter and appears regularly on Page Six.2009 March 13, Holly Brubach, “America’s Next Top Author”, in New York Times. From the entry skeeved

Meaning of eerily

  1. adverb In an eerie manner.

Full definition of eerily

Questions about eerily in a sentence

How do you use eerily in a sentence?
Eerily is used as an adverb. For example: “Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own.”
What is a short sentence with eerily?
“His parchment skin eerily displayed a blood-red nervation.”
What does eerily mean?
Eerily means in an eerie manner.

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