How to Use eerily in a Sentence

eerily

adverb

• Her eyes stared up and to the right, eerily frozen.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
• Some homes were eerily frozen in time, with bowls still filled with food.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2026
• The city of my childhood stands eerily still.
  — Babak Rahimi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• The past eerily melts into the present.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
• On the right, the back of Suzanne’s head pokes eerily out of nowhere.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• But the text produced by the model was eerily close to mine.
  — Vauhini Vara, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
• How eerily perfect did that feel as a full-circle arc for him?
  — Derek Lawrence, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
• Your voice in these shows is almost eerily unchanged from the records.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Dominique was floored — eerily so.
  — Mirin Fader, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• My life in the tree house was for the most part uneventful, at times eerily so.
  — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• Again, that feels like an eerily prescient message for our own time.
  — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
• The highways, once backed up with traffic, were now eerily silent.
  — Bonnie Marcus, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• The forest around us grows eerily quiet.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• The postgame locker room was eerily quiet.
  — Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• Its vibrant main street looks eerily empty.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
• Brooks said the crowd grew eerily quiet when Woods collapsed.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2023
• Then, what should have been the busiest part of the season was instead eerily quiet.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2024
• The streets of Tehran are eerily quiet – until the bombs come.
  — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
• In the hours after the battle, the village was eerily silent.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• The ship’s wheel was eerily spinning on its own, and everything was left in place.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The space was by turns eerily quiet and wildly cacophonous.
  — Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
• As he was wheeled off, Tres refused to give a thumbs-up to the crowd, which had gone eerily silent.
  — Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2022
• The sound evokes a time when escapism ruled the charts, and its return feels eerily timely to some.
  — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
• And a streetcar stood eerily intact.
  — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
• The stats otherwise were eerily even.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
• This dystopian cyberpunk tale feels eerily close to the present.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• The sound was eerily like Olivia’s cry at that age, as if emerging from a time capsule.
  — Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• Some homes had ceased to exist; others were eerily untouched.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
• The dirty streets, the petty crime, the eerily silent transit stations.
  — Heather Knight, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The speedy turnaround proved eerily prescient.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025