: in a strange and eerie manner : mysteriously, weirdly
The museum had closed for the night and it was eerily still.—
Brian Selznick
Brian SelznickIn a case eerily similar to the Vicki Hoskinson murder, an eleven-year-old girl in Louisiana disappeared while riding her bicycle.—David Fisher
David FisherExamples of eerily in a Sentence
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Enemies kidnap a young Furiosa from her mother, who chases after her while holding a rifle in an eerily similar fashion to Charlize Theron in Fury Road.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
The first half was eerily symmetrical; both teams committed 11 turnovers and shot 19-for-45 from the floor.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
The noise is eerily reminiscent of Russian drone strikes on Ukraine, but this episode was recorded closer to Moscow than to Kyiv.
—Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
Over dinner during the Los Angeles Times’ visit to Cyprus, Andrés made an eerily prescient remark about coordinating with the Israelis and the extreme peril of aid deliveries in a zone of ferocious battle.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
What the protagonists go through — bombardment, food shortages, displacement — is eerily reminiscent of what most of the world sees daily on the nightly news.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
The eerily perfect replacement of our sun’s disk by an equal-size black orb, followed by the startling appearance of previously invisible and dramatic regions of illumination surrounding it—that kind of eclipse demands very particular conditions.
—Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
But the footage from the reveal trailer for Marvel Rivals looked underwhelming and eerily close to early Overwatch footage, just not as good.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Indeed, multiple women have been reporting via TikTok that they have been attacked in an eerily similar manner.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2024
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
The first half was eerily symmetrical; both teams committed 11 turnovers and shot 19-for-45 from the floor.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
The noise is eerily reminiscent of Russian drone strikes on Ukraine, but this episode was recorded closer to Moscow than to Kyiv.
—Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
Over dinner during the Los Angeles Times’ visit to Cyprus, Andrés made an eerily prescient remark about coordinating with the Israelis and the extreme peril of aid deliveries in a zone of ferocious battle.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
What the protagonists go through — bombardment, food shortages, displacement — is eerily reminiscent of what most of the world sees daily on the nightly news.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
The eerily perfect replacement of our sun’s disk by an equal-size black orb, followed by the startling appearance of previously invisible and dramatic regions of illumination surrounding it—that kind of eclipse demands very particular conditions.
—Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
But the footage from the reveal trailer for Marvel Rivals looked underwhelming and eerily close to early Overwatch footage, just not as good.
—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Indeed, multiple women have been reporting via TikTok that they have been attacked in an eerily similar manner.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2024
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“Eerily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerily. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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