spooky

How to use spooky in a sentence

• Valentine created the statue of naturalist John James Audubon that stands in New Orleans and a deeply spooky representation of “Grief” atop a grave in Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery.

  Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine created many of the statues that defined Lost Cause mythology. Now his family’s museum is confronting the legacy. | Gregory S. Schneider | January 2, 2021 | Washington Post

• Indeed, there are spooky Christmas stories stretching back to medieval times, and ghosts popping up at such a festive time of year were one of the handful of Christmas traditions hanging on in Dickens’s day.

  A Christmas Carol, explained by a 5-year-old | Emily VanDerWerff | December 24, 2020 | Vox

• The spooky result is a bright portal leading somewhere beyond the imagination.

  How we created a portal to another world for our most mysterious cover yet | Sara Kiley Watson | November 3, 2020 | Popular-Science

• It’s similar in this way to the “spooky action at a distance” that so bothered Einstein.

  Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light | Natalie Wolchover | October 20, 2020 | Quanta Magazine

• Have you ever in your life met a child as cheerful, spookily intelligent, unselfish, or indomitable as little Shirley?

  Shirley Temple Survived Being the Biggest Child Star of All Time With Wit and Grace | Malcolm Jones | February 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST