eerie
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creepy, haunting, spookish, spooky, uncanny, unearthly, weird
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The store is eerie and dark, but more fun than frightening (except possibly for small children). — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, "Four Hours in Corona del Mar, where it’s already Halloween," 30 Aug. 2019 The results are a bit sad and eerie—and a reminder, perhaps, to put our phones away. — Steve Mollman, Quartz, "Photographer removes our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world," 28 Aug. 2019 The glow of a screen as darkness encroaches seems, by comparison, eerie and malevolent. — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, "Reader, I Googled It," 26 Aug. 2019 My first visit was on a snowy day last March, when the grounds were desolate-looking, a mix of eerie and romantic, very Scottish Highlands. — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, "Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon," 23 Aug. 2019 In the final two minutes, as the wheels reached for the runway at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, the smell of smoke filled the pressurized cabin of the Boeing 737 and an eerie orange colored the Alaskan landscape. — Geof Koss, Scientific American, "Alaska Reels During Summer of Fire, Heat and Floods," 21 Aug. 2019 It's described as an unsettling and eerie story of a widower who has spent years living with a haunting sound in his head. — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, "Hamtramck theater festival could be breakthrough for female directors," 14 Aug. 2019 Often, her words offered an eerie but not unsurprising assessment of what peril awaits should it be ignored. — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, "Toni Morrison’s Kaleidoscopic Vision of Literature," 6 Aug. 2019 After the first two days of the rush on the streets to buy essentials following the new government orders, the markets now look empty and eerie. — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, "Kashmir descends into a witch’s brew of fear and suspense," 4 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'eerie.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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