(a.) Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
(a.) Affected with fear; affrighted.
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.
Gery
Definition:
(a.) Changeable; fickle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new instrument, called the GERI-AIMS, generates both generic and arthritis-specific impairment scores, to control for comorbid conditions that are commonly found in an older population.
(2) Then will come speculation that Wade-Gery is too old to be a mother, or that her maternity leave is too short, or that it is too long and the corporate world can’t do without her for that long and that that’s why you shouldn’t have women at the top in business at all.
(3) Even Benedict Cumberbatch wasn’t too cool and private to announce his engagement in the Times, although I’m not sure how he feels about that decision now that Geri Halliwell has followed his lead .
(4) Wade-Gery, multichannel director of UK retail and online operations, will receive a payoff worth up to £2.4m in cash and shares, although only about £560,000 of that is guaranteed and the rest dependent on the performance of M&S over the next few years.
(5) "Continuing from Andrew Fletcher's comforting reassurance that you could be El-Hadji Diouf," writes the elegantly-monickered Leticia L'Amour, "just think: you could also be Paul Burrell, Michael Jackson, One True Voice, Gary Glitter, Glenn Roeder, Geri Halliwell's dog, a Stoke City fan, an estate agent, allergic to cheese, Liam Gallagher's anger management counsellor, Liam Gallagher..." By God, she's right.
(6) I wish Steve and all my colleagues and friends every success.” Wade-Gery will step down from M&S’s board with immediate effect and formally leave the company at the end of September.
(7) Marks & Spencer has confirmed that Laura Wade-Gery, one of the UK’s few female FTSE 100 board directors, will not be returning from maternity leave and is to exit the company at the end of September.
(8) Gery scale transformation improved image quality for the detection of gastric lesions.
(9) Having done a spot of Googling, I learn that it was also the year that Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls, arguably a misstep in her career which she may now be considering applying to have concealed.
(10) The public announcement of her four-month maternity leave was made by Marks & Spencer , where Wade-Gery has worked for four years and is now a senior director.
(11) Geri Halliwell: 'Feminism is bra-burning lesbianism,' she once said.
(12) Yes, Next, a beacon of high-street fanciness in the 1980s, which now employs Geri Halliwell as a designer.
(13) We wish her all the very best for the future.” Wade-Gery’s exit comes as Rowe tries to slim down M&S’s head office operations and cut costs as he battles to turn things around after the retailer’s biggest fall in clothing sales since the 2008 banking crisis .
(14) The effects of IL-1 include augmentation of T and B lymphocyte proliferation (Oppenheim and Gery 1982), but also mitogenic effects on a wide variety of other cells such as fibroblasts (Libby et al.
(15) They saw the clips wearing Gerard Deulofeu’s top and Geri could not wait to prepare a little present for him.
(16) As a group, and despite Geri's jawdropping cleavage, they were strangely sexless.
(17) I found my people, finally.” She cackles at the memories: the times she would drive down the motorway with Geri, both of them topless; the drinking, the clubbing, the fights.
(18) If you ever want to measure precisely how little of a toss we give about Africa, just consider that the UN's answer to the crisis in sub-Saharan maternal healthcare is Ms Geri Halliwell.
(19) We need an answer now | Joseph Harker Read more The announcement of Wade-Gery’s maternity leave prompted the usual disapproving voices, with their thinly veiled warnings (which are nothing more than criticisms) about career women who “delay” having babies, as though having babies is our written destiny and having a career is a selfish indulgence we have just taken too far – and we’ll be sorry.
(20) The News of the World even linked him to former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell in a "whirlwind romance" in 2007.