(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.
Peery
Definition:
(a.) Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its pages, the Americans of an epoch bid their successors farewell - people like Carolyn Peery of Cleveland, aged 99, who remembers her mother in law, "born into slavery ... jumping up and down saying 'God bless Mr Lincoln.