Example sentences for: uncanny

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

  • It's the way he blends them, though, that is uncanny: He's like a great jazz artist.

  • After a while you may begin to detect something a bit uncanny in the way a cow seems to look around and beyond her immediate surroundings — it’s as if she knows that she’s sacred.

  • But here, too, the analogies are 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.

  • There are displays of artisans creating the jewels — look for models with an uncanny resemblance to John Lennon and Paul McCartney.


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