- a variation of eerie.
eery
Americanadjective
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Painting an eery picture of the night, he believes weather conditions tripped the electricity off in the area, meaning the fan in his bedroom stopped for about 20 seconds before coming back on.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Reuters reporters who reached the city from the Russian-held side found an eery, silent wasteland, where bewildered civilians emerged from cellars beneath the ruins to bury their dead in grass by the roadside.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2022
It would all be very eery and horrifying if it were not at the same time absurd and comical.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2011
The water-flooded interior has been reduced to an austere décor of black and white, lit by a single floor-to-ceiling strip of sunlight — an eery refuge from the turbulence of the times.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2011
Though there was a breeze, it had no great strength, and the willows rustled beneath it fitfully with a faint and eery sighing.
From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold
Schlossberg, we should mention here, is Kennedy’s cousin once removed, which adds an even eerier aura to the story.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024
Even eerier was the lead story, about Adolf Hitler and the rise of his Third Reich.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021
Even eerier was Mr. Lucier’s “Music for Piano With Magnetic Strings,” a work consisting of written instructions, instead of musical notations, that lead to ever-varying notes in performance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2014
“Possessed” by Iranian-born Shirin Neshat is an eerier work.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2013
The house seemed eerier than ever, full of subdued complaints and whisperings.
From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith
The eeriest costume this Halloween season would be Aunt Gladys, with her odd copper wig, oversized sunglasses, blue eyeshadow, and smeary red lipstick.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
With worries about the spread of gun ownership in his head, Fogerty devised one of his eeriest productions for this swampy psych-rock number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
Otherwise, the town’s eeriest feature is its isolation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022
Plenty has been written about no crowds in sporting stadiums, but a Wales and England encounter in the Six Nations presented perhaps the eeriest atmosphere yet.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2021
The eeriest phase of the investigation began when the police, holding their flickering lanterns high, entered the hotel basement, a cavern of brick and timber measuring 50 by 165 feet.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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