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Eerily
"Eerily" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The streets are eerily quiet.
Tom was able to get eerily beautiful tunes out of a saw which he played using a violin bow.
I think that the architecture in the Greek Islands is eerily non-European.
One of my ancestral lands is Greece, and I have visited this eerily non-European-looking European country with its strange architectures. I went through the sunny islands and the mainland. A favourite travelogue is The Olive Grove by Katherine Kizilos, a Greek-Australian who voyaged in the off-season. Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea fictional series is reminiscent of this magical land. I love the Mediterranean climate.
Everything was eerily quiet.
The gazelle was eerily frozen.
If you look up at the starry sky, you'll find many bats on the wing, making not a sound. You can't quite make them out, but, from the way the stars disappear moment by moment, you can sense their eerily flying about.
James's room was eerily quiet.
The woods were eerily silent.
William just stood there, eerily silent.
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And it was the voice of a human being—a known, loved, well-remembered voice—that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe—wildly, eerily, urgently.
A woman whose fiancé died on Sept. 11, Maria Barreto-Mojica, said she noticed that something about yesterday had seemed eerily familiar. “I looked at the sky this morning. It was so blue, just the same as it was that morning,” said Ms. Barreto-Mojica, 48, who was to marry fire lieutenant Dennis Mojica.
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