(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.
Graveyard
Definition:
(n.) A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(2) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.
(3) The first bluestones, the smaller standing stones, were brought from Wales and placed as grave markers around 3,000BC, and it remained a giant circular graveyard for at least 200 years, with sporadic burials after that, he claims.
(4) No wonder the former home secretary calls them the party of the graveyard."
(5) He agreed with the chancellor, George Osborne, who has warned about creating "the stability of the graveyard" when reforming banks.
(6) A solution – injecting the graves with a lime solution to speed up decomposition – was eventually discovered by a graveyard worker, who charged the Norwegian authorities $670 per plot.
(7) For days we kept running, hiding in the woods and sleeping in graveyards until we eventually reached the safety of Bosnian-controlled territory.
(8) As such, it sits queasily alongside more measured government responses, such as upgrading the Imperial War Museum in London and taking schoolchildren to see the battlefields and graveyards of France.
(9) More than 5,000 are buried in this graveyard, compelling an investigation into the circumstances surrounding its loss.
(10) Notoriously, the Home Office is the graveyard of political reputations, the department where ministers discover either their civil service or the law render them frustrated, powerless or railing about a department that is not fit for purpose.
(11) 'The positive critical reception, word of mouth and the rise of Nordic noir fiction has seen a snowball effect on the popularity of subtitled drama' The Returned Were it not for the success of The Killing et al, The Returned might have found itself quietly picking up a small but loyal audience in a graveyard slot on E4, or the network might have preferred to wait for the forthcoming US remake.
(12) The stretch of water between Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, and Antarctica is many a mariner’s graveyard.
(13) But it has become the graveyard of diplomatic ambition.
(14) "This is a very special place," says Hughes as he gives a tour of the church and graveyard.
(15) Now it is a ghost town of shattered glass and broken graveyard walls, bombed vegetable shops and decapitated blocks of flats.
(16) If true, it would be Isis’s first attack on a civilian crowd in Kabul, and its largest ever attack in Afghanistan, only months after the Afghan president boasted that the country would be a “graveyard” for Isis .
(17) The military has erected a wall around the 3,800 sq ft plot where the al-Qaida leader’s compound once stood in the garrison city of Abbottabad, and wants to convert it into a graveyard.
(18) In Chapter 1, for example, Pip recalls watching Magwitch pick his way through the graveyard brambles, "as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in".
(19) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(20) You can make it complicated – but I've had some great times in a graveyard on a picnic blanket, and, indeed, up against bins around the back of a club – and I'd like something of that very British, make-do spirit to be represented somewhere in British sex fiction in 2014.