How to Use eerie in a Sentence

eerie

adjective

• The flames cast an eerie glow.
• It’s eerie, and a cool look for the game’s most recent hero.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Rich dark-blue walls capture the eerie calm of ocean depths.
  — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The vibe is bright, the riffs are crunchy, but something eerie lurks beneath the song.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• The boats’ green lights, used to attract squid, cast an eerie glow in the night sky.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• Most eerie of all was the wildfire smoke that oranged the sky.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
• Even when spent, the cones can cling to branches in eerie black clumps.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
• Stress just seems to melt away in the face of such expanse and eerie quiet.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• Look up, down, and around at the landscape as it is bathed in eerie light and shadows.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
• Every day, life in Russia seems to serve up eerie echoes of the film.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• The air won’t stop filling with acrid smoke, and the sky has turned from blue to an eerie orange.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
• The body horror lingering at the fringes of this is very eerie.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
• The night was filled with that eerie light that only molten rock can produce.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• But in a house a block from the lake, there was no holiday cheer -- only the eerie sound of a phone off the hook.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Over the next two days, an eerie calm took over the city as some shops and restaurants reopened.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• An eerie presence in the house, however, haunts the men to the edge of sanity.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
• After all the sirens and the yelling, the midafternoon silence was eerie, jarring.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
• The eerie moment fired up his base and propelled him to power.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 17 July 2024
• This year, the standout show is eerie in a different way.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
• Horror lovers, get ready, as your first glimpse at the eerie new series Teacup awaits.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
• In the third, slow movement, held notes emerge and submerge to produce an eerie melody.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• The journey takes her through those eerie woods, where the car suddenly conks out.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• Beyond the canyon, there may be blizzards and bears but, in this eerie oasis of calm, the broth is perfect, meaty and rich.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• One of the eeriest things he’s seen in his eight years with the Belle was one winter morning at about 4 a.m. when the air was warmer and the fog was thick.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
• On the day of the anniversary of the terror attacks, the city fell into an eerie silence.
  — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2022
• The noise echoed off the buildings so that all of EUR — in its full commuting buzz — seemed to be letting out eerie screams.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• Beth Harmon was played, with eerie poise, by Anya Taylor-Joy.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The show opened on an eerie gallery, a room full of headless human torsos cast in plaster.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• As the music moves into the upper register, the thirds take on an eerie tinge, at least to ears accustomed to modern tuning.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
• The resulting black-and-white photograph shows some two dozen deer in a mesmerizing blur — indistinct, eerie white figures under a canopy of trees.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024