Example Sentences

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The cinematography, by Jarred Alterman, is quite handsome and composed, amplifying the seriousness and eeriness, but also the banality and absurdity of the matter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

"There was an eeriness that hung over the pier — it was a terrible scene."

From BBC • May 12, 2025

Directed by Charlotte Le Bon, the coming-of-age drama “Falcon Lake” is a story of summer love steeped in the eeriness of a wilderness slasher.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Throughout his work, Carroll regularly links an almost surreal eeriness to a love story, one often involving a privileged but psychologically wounded protagonist.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

The nights at Mobius have an eeriness about them, a soundless, otherworldly beauty, interrupted only by a chance howl or hoot in the distance.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed