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Eerie


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Eery

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nerdy Gales (@NerdyGales) The size of the crowd seems to be inducing the #USMNT to play like it's a scrimmage #USAvUKR @KidWeil March 5, 2014 It’s an eerie atmosphere for sure, but there are so many US players on the field who must know they are long shots for the World Cup squad and that this may be their best, if not final chance to get to Brazil.
  • (2) There is little that can compare to the videos of the black wall of water crashing through cities or the eerie aftermath of ships beached in carparks.
  • (3) It's huge and slightly eerie, with one column of light pouring in the top and a hairy wall made entirely of sleeping daddy longlegs.
  • (4) Murky crime drama Shetland (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) returns this week for a second series, revealing Shetland as the most eerie – and overcast – location on Earth.
  • (5) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (6) But what is eerie is how the film is beginning to surface just as media obsession with Kate Middleton – her wedding, her pregnancy – is beginning to grow as well.
  • (7) An eerie howling atmospherically emanated from the moor.
  • (8) An eerie silence descended on White Hart Lane after he collapsed – shortly before half time when the score stood at 1-1.
  • (9) Visiting Sousse’s hotels these days is an eerie experience, with empty pools, deserted bars and buffets laden with uneaten food.
  • (10) There was nothing to see for miles but sage-covered high desert, a landscape of stark beauty and eerie desolation.
  • (11) Yet there may be other, more abstract, objections contained in the eerie idea of that word: extinction, the permanent eradication of a species that has evolved and survived for thousands of years.
  • (12) In the novel, Dr Watson talks of “a spectral hound which leaves material footmarks”, and Holmes suspects that Stapleton used phosphorous to give the hound its eerie glow.
  • (13) Based on a 2004 film of the same name, Les Revenants was given its distinctive feel partly by the director's decision only to film between 4pm and 9pm – "Fabrice always wanted it to be dusk", said Thiam – and by the eerie, distinctive soundtrack created by Scottish band Mogwai.
  • (14) "In these very big firms, there's a slightly eerie feeling that it's so big you'll be there forever.
  • (15) Kerry, Ireland Kerry's hills are eerie and wet, but atmospheric.
  • (16) The 3-0 scoreline was nowhere as bad as their capitulation a few days earlier but the sense of melancholy was enhanced by the eerie indifferent atmosphere in Brasília – the booing and the ironic bullfighting-like chants to salute the Dutch passing proficiency never really threatened to reach the levels heard in Belo Horizonte, a city that unlike the Brazilian capital actually has a football culture.
  • (17) But there is an eerie calm – and ubiquitous posters praising Kadyrov and his father, Akhmad Kadyrov, the former leader killed at a stadium bombing in May 2004.
  • (18) When they got back up he said there was an eerie silence, with dead and injured parents and children all around them.
  • (19) Despite their eerie poignancy, some cycling campaigners worry that the memorials could, in fact, act in the main to put off would-be cyclists.
  • (20) There are eerie echoes of a certain Texas energy trading firm known as the "crooked E" that collapsed in 2001.

Eerily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a strange, unearthly way.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The streets of Libreville, the central African country’s seaside capital, were eerily quiet on Friday evening.
  • (2) It is an eerily apposite image from the year the outbreak of the Spanish civil war inaugurated a new age of slaughter.
  • (3) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
  • (4) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
  • (5) Earlier this week in Janesville, where post-industrial melancholy is evident in a closed car plant and eerily quiet downtown, House speaker Paul Ryan crushed a Trump-style challenger in a congressional primary.
  • (6) Watching the Conservative leader now, Gould's stern paragraphs about the importance of television appearances and "symbolic policies", and how political parties should change to fit society, seem almost eerily applicable.
  • (7) Outside rush hour, the subway is eerily silent: thanks to a strong underground signal, everyone's staring at their smartphones, texting, playing games, or reading.
  • (8) The water crisis in Flint is a sobering reminder of America’s long history of disregard when it comes to the welfare of black bodies – I am not the first to note how eerily reminiscent it is of the Tuskegee Experiment in the 1970s, when hundreds of black men with syphilis were not told they had the disease so that US Public Health Services could study its progression.
  • (9) Fox's voice is small at first; she seems eerily distant, her face turned away.
  • (10) Andy Serkis As Gollum nee Smeagol, King Kong, and Caesar the chimpanzee who would rule us all, Andy Serkis has established himself as an actor so eerily good at imitation and invention that critics have called for award categories to expand just to reward his performances .
  • (11) A few farmers and children were walking the green fields, but Shadel Bazar was eerily quiet.
  • (12) There has and continues to be astonishing progress towards and beyond this target, which was achieved in 2010, five years ahead of its deadline – a fact that went eerily uncelebrated.
  • (13) Google's Street View imagery takes users on a 360-degree virtual tour of Namie's eerily quiet streets, its earthquake-damaged buildings and the overturned cars and fishing boats resting where they were deposited by the tsunami.
  • (14) I get to tell my story and not keep it bottled up.” She continued, “Other brave survivors’ eerily familiar stories have inspired me to share my story that rape isn’t always a stranger in the bushes.” Here is the 21-year-old woman’s full statement to the court: “His life is ruined.” Oh yeah, and it’s not like my life isn’t ruined or anything.
  • (15) Afterwards, Col Needham, the IMDb chief, said that, eerily, he had been having a conversation on this very subject with Shirley MacLaine, who had asked what would happen if a mistake was made.
  • (16) It’s incredible that no teacher ever caught us huddled up on the benches near the softball field exchanging papers or realized all of our work was eerily similar.
  • (17) In the five months since David Cameron and Nick Clegg went public with their relationship, we have discovered the men have more in common than just their ages, expensive educations and eerily smooth complexions.
  • (18) Maria Bamford With her high-pitched voice and eerily precise impressions, the intensity of Maria Bamford’s comedy isn’t always apparent at first glance.
  • (19) Anthony Atamanuik’s portrayal of Trump – breathtakingly brutal and eerily accurate – was hilarious at first, but over time, even he seemed to get sick of the baseless bravado and pumpkin-colored skin.
  • (20) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.

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