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UK
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[ US /ˈɪɹəɫi/ ]
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in an unnatural eery manner
it was eerily quiet in the chapel
How To Use eerily In A Sentence
- “Hi,” she called cheerily and grabbed the broom and began to sweep. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom
- The nectarean beverage seemed to operate cheerily on the matron's system; and placing her hand on the boy's curly head, she said (like Andromache, Paul Clifford — Volume 01
- Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along the dark corridors.
- This isn't simply an imitation or impersonation of Brando, but it's eerily close.
- She pointed an accusing finger at the man, who gaped beerily. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel
- Two of them then, equally cheerily, climbed into his bed (the third crashed out on the sofa).
- These holiday season signs seem eerily out of place in this grief-stricken city.
- But it is eerily impressive, like watching a brilliant young bodybuilder flexing his steroidal muscles.
- All the same, there are two passages in the book that I found eerily premonitory of what she would do ten years later.
- And, finally, there could be cemeteries for hypochondriacs which are, and will remain, eerily empty.