be eerie
Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words
Describes a state of being strange and frightening.
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Examples (10)
- The old house is eerie at night.
- The silence in the abandoned hospital was distinctly eerie.
- There's something eerie about the way the fog conceals the city.
- The empty streets during the lockdown were eerie.
- It will be eerie walking through the graveyard after dark.
- The strange, rhythmic chanting from the woods was downright eerie.
- A sudden, unnatural calm before the storm can be quite eerie.
- He thought the doll's unblinking stare was almost eerie.
- The identical twins had a resemblance that was slightly eerie.
- Don't you find it is a bit eerie when you're the only one in the office?