Example sentences for: eerie

How can you use “eerie” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The best time to visit is early morning, when the rising sun lights up the contours of the statues, giving them an eerie, lifelike quality.

  • A long (15-minute) excerpt from his score for Rikyu braids together fitful phrases of European Renaissance string music, ominous Asian pluckings, and electronic reverberations into a tapestry that is more hazily eerie than narrative.

  • In the splendid Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature (190 Rupert Avenue), prehistoric and present-day animals are presented in beautifully recreated environments of Arctic wastelands, tundra, woodland, and waterfalls, complete with bird sounds, eerie wolf howls, or the terrifying roar of a forest fire.

  • The ambience isn't as clammy as Fincher's in Seven , but it's dank enough, with eerie intimations of a demon lying in wait.

  • This from Reuters: "Druids danced, Muslims prayed, Hindus bathed, and Europeans stopped work and took to the streets as an eerie twilight followed by darkness covered their capitals at about noon."


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