How to Use eerie in a Sentence

eerie

adjective
  • The flames cast an eerie glow.
  • Yet, the area still felt eerie.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The silent road in its eerie murk.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • And life there can feel a little eerie.
    — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 15 May 2026
  • The dance is very still … almost eerie.
    — Billboard Korea, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The trek back was equal parts eerie and absurd.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Even when spent, the cones can cling to branches in eerie black clumps.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
  • Some jumped out of street corners to greet you with a quest and an eerie smile.
    — Jamal Michel, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Thick smoke choked much of the state and cast an eerie orange hue across the sky.
    — Terence Chea and Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The eerie origins of the shots have led to a mixed response.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Most eerie of all was the wildfire smoke that oranged the sky.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The boats’ green lights, used to attract squid, cast an eerie glow in the night sky.
    — Chao Deng, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • An eerie silence fell over the jungle.
    — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The sun didn’t rise, sending out instead the same eerie glow.
    — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Tree made eerie comments about his will just weeks before his death.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • The tales are filled with lots of good history but all have an eerie spin.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Stress just seems to melt away in the face of such expanse and eerie quiet.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The night was filled with that eerie light that only molten rock can produce.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But listen to the eerie silence.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of feeling like a shot of his old life, school felt eerie and silent.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • An eerie wedding opens the premiere.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
  • That kind of eerie alignment is how the song came into the world in the first place.
    — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
  • The vibe is bright, the riffs are crunchy, but something eerie lurks beneath the song.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
  • 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 eerie moment fired up his base and propelled him to power.
    — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 17 July 2024
  • The body horror lingering at the fringes of this is very eerie.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Over the next two days, an eerie calm took over the city as some shops and restaurants reopened.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Still, the tone with which Melissa says all this is slightly eerie.
    — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Get ready to spook friends and family with these eerie pumpkins.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Every day, life in Russia seems to serve up eerie echoes of the film.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024

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