eerie
IPA: ˈɪri
noun
- An eerie creature or thing.
- Alternative form of eyrie [The nest of a bird of prey.]
adjective
- Strange, weird, fear-inspiring, especially in a shadowy or mysterious way.
- (Scotland) Frightened, timid.
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Examples of "eerie" in Sentences
- The total effect is eerie and disturbing.
- The chorus is definitely somber, eerie, ominous.
- An eerie pall seemed to have descended on the village.
- To call this tale eerie is a bit of an understatement.
- In the second the eerie sense of separation is stronger.
- The basement is quite extensive and quite eerie in places.
- They sparkle in the firelight, adding eerie eyes to the mask.
- What really makes button, button so eerie, is its familiarity.
- Some eerie wraiths are seen flying in and out of the windows above.
- The stage is completely clear, except for a chair in eerie spotlight.
- Mysore, and they mirror the Maccabees story in eerie and powerful ways.
- Combined, these give the summit of the hill an eerie, other worldly feel.
- The battle was the final assault on Hill Eerie by the United Nations forces.
- That eerie wailing at the end of the title theme is a team of trilling horns.
- STREATOR -- Soldiers 'paths may cross in eerie ways years after the battles have ended.
- Ordinary things gain eerie contours when illuminated by the imagination of this lonely girl.
- What's eerie is that Republicans then were saying some of the same things Democrats are saying now.
- When the final buzzer sounded, the Woodinville junior was overcome with what she called an "eerie" feeling.
- But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens.