eerily empty

Frequency: 7.00.3 per million words

describes a place that is unnaturally or unexpectedly empty

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Examples (20)

  • The city streets, usually bustling with traffic, were eerily empty after the city-wide curfew.
  • The abandoned house stood eerily empty in the moonlight.
  • Walking through the school corridors at night, she found them eerily empty and silent.
  • After the evacuation, the streets remained eerily empty.
  • The once-vibrant marketplace was now eerily empty, with only the wind blowing through the stalls.
  • The classroom felt eerily empty without the children's laughter.
  • Due to the pandemic lockdown, the normally crowded shopping mall felt eerily empty.
  • The shopping mall was eerily empty during the lockdown.
  • He explored the abandoned house, where each room was eerily empty except for a single, overturned chair.
  • His apartment seemed eerily empty after she moved out.
  • The grand hall, which should have been filled with guests, stood eerily empty.
  • The theater stood eerily empty before the performance.
  • We drove through the town square, which was eerily empty for a Saturday afternoon.
  • The hospital corridor looked eerily empty at midnight.
  • The playground, usually full of laughing children, was eerily empty under the grey, overcast sky.
  • The playground appeared eerily empty on that foggy morning.
  • After the evacuation, the entire office building was eerily empty.
  • The office building felt eerily empty on the weekend.
  • The vast stadium felt eerily empty moments after the massive crowd had departed.
  • The train station was eerily empty during the storm.