Example sentences for: uncanny

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

  • (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.

  • But here, too, the analogies are uncanny.

  • One gaunt statue, Ombra della Sera (Evening Shadow), is an uncanny 2,000-year-old precursor of a modern Giacometti.

  • There is another reason, though, for the extraordinary pleasures this exhibition provides, and that is the uncanny familiarity of Japanese art for Western viewers.

  • But perhaps the uncanny ability not to notice these things is acquired by focusing mainly on , which does appear to run a huge trade surplus even while attracting lots of foreign capital.


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