Example sentences for: uncanny

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

  • He had such a depth of understanding, a maturity of judgment and an uncanny ability to hone in on the real issues.

  • Later, on many visits to Germany, I reluctantly submitted to the title of Hair Torpor, an uncanny prediction of what was to befall my then luxuriant growth.

  • On rare occasions a typographical error is uncanny.

  • (That Richard bears an uncanny resemblance to Anne Heche adds to the frisson .) Zoe doubles as a spokeswoman for the director's aesthetics: American films, she complains, "have too much decoration, too much money"; French films are increasingly impersonal and apolitical.

  • She is the sexual metaphor for all our feelings about political slickness, its uncanny ability to tell people what they want to hear before leaving them high and dry.


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