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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The streets of Tehran are eerily quiet – until the bombs come.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The space was by turns eerily quiet and wildly cacophonous.
    — Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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 speedy turnaround proved eerily prescient.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The footage skirts around the uncanny valley, but something about it still feels eerily smooth.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2026
  • Palantir has been eerily quiet since the August sell-off.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Some risks look eerily familiar.
    — Sean Evins, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Her playmates have vanished, and the home has fallen eerily quiet.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Whole hunks of Islamabad’s sprawling road grid are eerily silent.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The city was eerily quiet after midnight.
    — ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This eerily reminds me of The Matrix.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The first seconds of the aerial video were eerily still before a line of white smoke erupted from the ground and sliced through the sky.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 14 May 2026
  • What was offered then, and what is being offered now, are eerily similar.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Heading down to the train tracks near Pinewood Cemetery was eerily quiet.
    — Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The action feels so different from the gunplay of the first game, and yet eerily familiar.
    — George Yang, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • The halls and waiting rooms are eerily quiet as the agents survey the migrants in attendance.
    — Mark Peterson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There’s something eerily coherent about them.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025

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