- 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
But there’s nothing to be done: try as I might, I can’t superimpose the eery monochrome photographs I’ve seen of the factory in Blitzed on to this Technicolor suburban scene.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2016
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
There stole into his mood an eery suggestion of intention.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
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
A stalwart of the LA psychedelic scene who has played with musicians including Ariel Pink and Tim Presley, Jack Name’s own music is eerier than that of his energetic peers.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019
“Just when you think the Chelsea Hotel couldn’t get any eerier, I worked in the hotel for two years after it closed,” she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2016
The house seemed eerier than ever, full of subdued complaints and whisperings.
From Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
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
Every winter I reread — sometimes for myself, sometimes with my children — Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising,” surely one of the eeriest novels there is.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
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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