What's the difference between eerily and ominously?
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.
Ominously
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
(2) As with other malignant salivary gland tumors, advanced stage and pain as a presenting symptom were ominous findings.
(3) We reached the following conclusions: The incidence of operative phrenic nerve injury in infants undergoing lateral thoracotomy, particularly for Blalock-Taussig shunt, is higher than generally appreciated; plication is a safe procedure as performed by either an abdominal or thoracic approach; failure to achieve extubation within a week of plication is an ominous prognostic sign; mortality in patients with eventration in the presence of major associated conditions may be high despite plication.
(4) A decrease of the activities of all dehydrogenases examined appeared to be prognostically ominous, correlating with a score of 7 or higher.
(5) In our report we document that myelofibrosis associated with breast cancer is not an ominous sign.
(6) In a comment likely to be seen as ominous at the White House, Comey said the inquiry was “very complex and there is no way for me to give you a timetable as to when it will be done”.
(7) Ominous fetal heart rate patterns were less common in hypertensive women without these risk factors; still the significant differences in comparison with normotensive women remained.
(8) The presence of liquid neutral fat without an intra-articular fracture is an ominous sign of a significant soft tissue injury.
(9) The tracings were scored blindly according to severity of abnormal patterns, and the infants were grouped into ominous, intermediate, and normal scores.
(10) The point made here is that loss of biodiversity should be as ominous for microbiologists and biotechnologists as it is to conservationists.
(11) In 1997, the Miami Fusion entered the league and ominously played in the old home of the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers (a converted high school stadium).
(12) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(13) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
(14) The finding of involvement of para-aortic lymph nodes in patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate has been considered so ominous that further therapy has often only been palliative.
(15) It is ominous because it suggests that the monitors will not be given free access as was hoped.
(16) Both clear-cut benign and transitional sebaceous neoplasms should also be recognized as having the potential to undergo an ominous clinical regrowth upon subtotal excision and a complete squamous transformation.
(17) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
(18) Even more ominous is the fragmentation of the global news agenda, and with it public opinion, into clear propaganda blocs.
(19) Having done battle with the Walkie-Scorchie "fryscraper" by Rafael Viñoly – who, somewhat ominously, is also responsible for the Battersea power station masterplan – at least London should be ready for whatever Gehry decides to throw at it.
(20) But I think the signs from here on are more ominous for Cameron.