variants
or less commonly eery
eerier; eeriest
1
: so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine
a coyote's eerie howl
the similarities were eerie
also
: seemingly not of earthly origin
the flames cast an eerie glow
2
chiefly Scotland
: affected with fright : scared
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Examples of eerie in a Sentence
The flames cast an eerie glow.
a land of eerie beauty
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Although the weather remained eerie, Ingham County voters found a way to the polls to clost out the 2024 election year.
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Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
Then the divers began to find porcelain, more than three hundred and fifty thousand pieces in all, many of them stacked in eerie columns, their wooden crates having rotted away.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Using Christina Ricci's Cat Full of Spiders deck, here's what Halloween has in store for you, according to a tarot reader
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With Halloween approaching, an eerie yet enchanting energy crackles through the air, instilling a sense of anticipation and mystery.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
On the flip side of things (quite literally), the Netherworld occupied by the recently, and not-so-recently, deceased needed to come off as eerie and a place where earthly rules of sound no longer apply.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
Then the divers began to find porcelain, more than three hundred and fifty thousand pieces in all, many of them stacked in eerie columns, their wooden crates having rotted away.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Using Christina Ricci's Cat Full of Spiders deck, here's what Halloween has in store for you, according to a tarot reader
Comments
With Halloween approaching, an eerie yet enchanting energy crackles through the air, instilling a sense of anticipation and mystery.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
On the flip side of things (quite literally), the Netherworld occupied by the recently, and not-so-recently, deceased needed to come off as eerie and a place where earthly rules of sound no longer apply.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for eerie
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“Eerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerie. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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