(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.
Otherworldly
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Example Sentences:
(1) Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
(2) It makes us believe that mental illness is something otherworldly.
(3) A veteran Westminster player, he lives in Salisbury, not London, most of the week, in the same otherworldly cathedral quarter as the former residence of Edward Heath.
(4) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
(5) But the price paid for Autonomy was otherworldly – it smacked of a management team that was too anxious to make a hardware-for-software switch.
(6) Croatia, Morocco and Iceland also provide otherworldly backdrops to the backstabbing and bribery of Westeros and beyond.
(7) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
(8) "Of all the sites, it was the most depressing and slightly sordid," she says, "while other places often had an air of melancholy or seemed slightly otherworldly at dawn.
(9) He has suffered from alopecia - hair loss - since childhood, and his otherworldly air is heightened by an eerie lack of eyebrows.
(10) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
(11) I can only vouch for the R&R to be found in its calm, otherworldly landscape.
(12) She doesn’t date, is a vegan, sleeps very little, quotes Jane Austen by heart, works nonstop, dresses like Steve Jobs and as the New Yorker helpfully informs us: “several times a day she drinks a pulverized concoction of cucumber, parsley, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce and celery.” She sounds like someone who is tremendously fun to have at Scrabble night, and absolutely otherworldly … in fact, she sounds like a unicorn.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘An extraordinary, alien, otherworldly creature’: David Bowie 1947-2016 - video tribute After a 1962 schoolyard punch-up, the pupil in David’s left eye remained permanently dilated, having the serendipitous effect of lending him a vaguely unearthly appearance (the thrower of the punch, George Underwood , remained a close friend and later designed Bowie’s album artwork).
(14) The shaman sings these ancient South American chants and shakes this palm branch, and it sounds crazy-otherworldly.” Ayahuasca has gained something of a cult reputation among celebrities from Sting and Paul Simon to Lindsay Lohan and the Klaxons, though it remains illegal, and its implication in the death of a British teenager in Colombia earlier this year has cast a shadow over the rapturous accounts made by some of those who have tried it.
(15) In the first, St Matthew and his fellow taxmen, all in contemporary dress, are sitting at a table in a darkened room when Christ enters and, pointing (in a gesture taken from Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling), calls on him to join the church: at this moment of revelation the startled Matthew is spotlit by a diagonal shaft of otherworldly light.
(16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
(17) Residents say they never tire of gazing at the city centre's sublime, otherworldly architecture.
(18) "The TV shows are so good, so intriguing, that it's almost otherworldly."
(19) These have an otherworldly feel to them, as if formed by a giant poking his rough fingers deep into the island from above in a misguided mission to supply its inhabitants with swimming pools.
(20) It begins in an abyss of double-bass sonority, and builds to a screaming, discombobulating climax of mind-bending power; then there's a quieter, otherworldly section, before the terror of the first section returns.