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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
The brutal police force in Season 2 has eerie shades of ICE detaining people and using violence against protesters, despite being written nearly two years ago.
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
But listen to the eerie silence.
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
Alicia enlists the aid of an unseen engineer to help understand the precarity of the structure, their discussions heard over eerie 3D renderings of the silos that resemble X-rays.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2026
Commercial satellite imagery captured last week shows the eerie devastation following the bombing of an Iranian elementary school.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
But listen to the eerie silence.
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
Alicia enlists the aid of an unseen engineer to help understand the precarity of the structure, their discussions heard over eerie 3D renderings of the silos that resemble X-rays.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2026
Commercial satellite imagery captured last week shows the eerie devastation following the bombing of an Iranian elementary school.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for eerie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eerie
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An echo of these matches lies in Human Mask (2014), a haunting video work by Pierre Huyghe, set in Fukushima after the destruction wrought by the tsunami and then the breakdown of the nuclear reactor.—
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei,
ARTnews.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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The final scene is haunting, even to me, someone who has known Hood for years now.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But why did the creepy man called Shadow take her in the first place?—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
5 Apr. 2026
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But somewhere along the way, mostly in recent years, the lamb cake took a weird turn as people began posting photos of their scary, creepy, nightmarish lamb cake fails.—
Lisa Gutierrez
April 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Eerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eerie. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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