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also eery
as in haunting
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
eerie noises would occasionally come from locked rooms in the castle
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Recent Examples of eerie
That night, the northern lights gleamed cold and hard, and the moon bathed the whole landscape in bleak, eerie light.
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Dolores Brown,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
Spook Hill, one of Florida’s eeriest attractions.
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Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
These seven sites sit at a rather eerie intersection of science and folklore.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
The image was taken by fine-art photographer Gregory Crewdson, whose eerie, stunning shots of suburban life have drawn comparisons to David Lynch and Edward Hopper.
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Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for eerie
Dolores Brown,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
Spook Hill, one of Florida’s eeriest attractions.
—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
These seven sites sit at a rather eerie intersection of science and folklore.
—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
The image was taken by fine-art photographer Gregory Crewdson, whose eerie, stunning shots of suburban life have drawn comparisons to David Lynch and Edward Hopper.
—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for eerie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eerie
Adjective
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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One of the movie’s most haunting subplots involves prisoners, who are pulled from labor camps looking half-dead and subsequently folded into Michael Caine‘s soccer team at the Brit’s insistence, but possibly to his squad’s detriment.
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The cast is rounded out by Coco Jones as Laila’s bestie Jasmine and Langley Kirkwood as the family’s creepy butler.
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That geographic blandness only emphasizes the film’s other shortcomings, such as Schoenaerts’s anonymous work as the villain (a lot of glowering and creepy glares) and the rather rote big-sister/little-sister arc given to Supergirl and Ruthye.
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“Eerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eerie. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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