eery
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
And the costumes in its video appear like an eery prediction of personal protective equipment.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2020
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
Always with these people there was this fear, this panic-desire to escape, always an urge to destruction coupled with eery mysticism, compulsions, conflicts—and always the final delusion of personal sanity in the atmosphere of chaos.
From Shock Treatment by Mullen, Stanley
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