How to Use eerie in a Sentence

eerie

adjective
  • The flames cast an eerie glow.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ashford has some choice eerie moments, and Moss-Bachrach knows how to get inside a con man.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
  • That felt like an eerie parallel to the past few years dealing with the pandemic.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • Hooper’s The eerie aura that surrounds the house in the movie even before the first victim steps across the threshold is long gone.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The lyrics and melody are both eerie and hypnotic, and serve as a glimpse into the self-reflective state Kish has been in.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 July 2022
  • Howard also showed off the exterior of the home, which featured fog and and trees in the front yard lit up with an eerie red light.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 29 Oct. 2023
  • This eerie, boneless creature looks like a shark with a chainsaw for a nose, called a rostrum.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • And what better way to do that than by looking at photos of eerie vintage dolls?
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024

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