Definition of eerie
eerier
;eeriest
1 chiefly Scotland : affected with fright : scared
2 : 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
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Examples of eerie in a Sentence
The flames cast an eerie glow.
a land of eerie beauty
Recent Examples of eerie from the Web
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Riley mixed enough Stoops-isms into Monday’s news conference at The Star that one reporter pointed out the similarities seemed a bit eerie.
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The campsite was eerie in the early morning, littered with crushed beer cans and trampled red sashes, silent except for the wind hitting the tents.
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Crawford’s shooting death was a precursor, with eerie similarities, to the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio just over three months later.
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Oliver decided to beat them to it, casting the eerie wax figure of Harding in the lead role.
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Dimitri Tiomkin's score is in the eerie mood of the drama and batoned expertly by Ray Heindorf.
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The off-season is well underway, and well, things are starting to get eerie.
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The Western flexatone was a metal plate struck with beaters that added a clang to eerie, unstable glissandos.
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In recent weeks, sky-watchers have been reporting nightly outbursts of eerie tendrils glowing in the twilight skies.
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Origin and Etymology of eerie
Middle English (northern dialect) eri
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