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?