How to Use eerie in a Sentence

eerie

adjective

• The flames cast an eerie glow.
• Rich dark-blue walls capture the eerie calm of ocean depths.
  — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The vibe is bright, the riffs are crunchy, but something eerie lurks beneath the song.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• Most eerie of all was the wildfire smoke that oranged the sky.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
• Look up, down, and around at the landscape as it is bathed in eerie light and shadows.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
• The night was filled with that eerie light that only molten rock can produce.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• But in a house a block from the lake, there was no holiday cheer -- only the eerie sound of a phone off the hook.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• An eerie presence in the house, however, haunts the men to the edge of sanity.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
• Beyond the canyon, there may be blizzards and bears but, in this eerie oasis of calm, the broth is perfect, meaty and rich.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The noise echoed off the buildings so that all of EUR — in its full commuting buzz — seemed to be letting out eerie screams.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• Beth Harmon was played, with eerie poise, by Anya Taylor-Joy.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The show opened on an eerie gallery, a room full of headless human torsos cast in plaster.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• That felt like an eerie parallel to the past few years dealing with the pandemic.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• Howard also showed off the exterior of the home, which featured fog and and trees in the front yard lit up with an eerie red light.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 29 Oct. 2023
• This eerie, boneless creature looks like a shark with a chainsaw for a nose, called a rostrum.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• And the Saab four ran with an eerie, silky smoothness that rivaled the Acura's V-6 and embarrassed the Alfa's.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 24 June 2023
• Play eerie favorites like light as a feather, stiff as a board or break out the classic Ouija board.
  — Nicole Johnson, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
• The trees that once shaded the property and echoed with bird calls now stood in eerie silence, their limbs charred and skeletal.
  — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Listening was eerie, like a version of my life was on loop, but falling out of synch.
  — Matthew Schnipper, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
• The former is eerie and catchy, with some bubbling synths that never quite explode.
  — Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
• In an eerie peculiarity, this was the same exact day and place that Wade was buried.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023
• On the haunted side of things, there are some eerie sounds and doors that mysteriously open at night.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Browse Newsletters But a world in which the bots can understand and speak my name, and yours, is also an eerie one.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
• Taken in by eerie ghosts called the Wilis, Giselle then enters an ethereal world where dance is the language of the soul.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
• There are eerie moments, like Kwon’s pictures of Biggie Smalls, a.k.a.
  — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2023
• When the snow finally stopped, an eerie stillness came over the neighborhood.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• That is the eeriest part of these videos — the parents are barely interacting with their kids.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The firefight at the airport came as an eerie calm covered the capital as the country braced for the return of Henry from Kenya.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• Laid on top of the eerie beats that have become the norm in his hometown, his raps cast a spell that can only be broken with a splash of holy water.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 2 Jan. 2024
• The sense of isolation its title evokes refers to the eerie tales in its pages as well as to Black people’s uneasy history with the genre.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024