How To Use Spooky In A Sentence

  • Which neatly brings us to Humans, a new spooky drama about artificial intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is a slow-boiler of a film, an exercise in the suspense that spooky children, locked doors, creaking floors, mist, candles and shifty characters do best.
  • However, now that the digest is finished (until next month), Spooky's is making me go Outside today to see my neurologist, because the seizure was that bad. "We think we've climbed so high, Up all the backs we've condemned..."
  • Generally, though, this is mainstream music with a spooky gown hastily thrown over it. Times, Sunday Times
  • If anyone's interested in gifting Spooky and me with the distractions that help to make this existence bearable, in the form of Solstice gifts, we have both updated our Amazon wish lists. "I'm living in an age that calls darkness light..."
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  • The next note seems to suggest he was initially thinking of this as something quite spooky. The Sun
  • Halloween is a spooky and scary night . People dress up in the Hallween.
  • Jigsaw has locked a bunch of strangers in a spooky old house with nerve gas slowly killing them off.
  • He believes that by scaring a horse, such as sacking them out incorrectly, snubbing, or tying a scary object to the saddle to where the horse has no means of escape will lead to a nervous or spooky horse.
  • Really, Holmes, I would swear there is something spooky or supernatural about cats.
  • There are some spooky goings-on in this Halloween episode of the family comedy. The Sun
  • A chain of spooky coincidences brings a friend back into your life. The Sun
  • This creates a rather spooky atmosphere and because of the many camera angles gives the impression that you are being watched.
  • Hey, don't dismiss it as another horror film with a bit of spooky stuff, a gory hand, a falling chandelier.
  • ‘When I saw the Mexican army up on the hill there and there I was in my full rig - with my flintlock rifle - it got kind of spooky,’ he added.
  • New keyboardist Per Wiberg is the band's secret weapon, his piano, organ, and mellotron giving the album a lush, spooky atmosphere.
  • Conte's robotlike bugs have a distinctly spooky look, conjuring the frequent sci-fi fear about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the planet. Dr. Terminator: The Prosthetics Designer Who Makes Sci-Fi Sculptures
  • Jez Butterworth's new play (only his fourth) at the Almeida is a spooky tale of mid-life crisis and adultery in the suburbs, where the trees whisper strange messages, nightmares are rife and people think their neighbours are ghouls at the garden barbecues. Undefined
  • Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
  • Will you shut up about ghosts! You always scare me with that spooky talk!
  • Then they layer on morbid lyrics, vapory and spooky harmonies and bursts of organ or the peeling of chimes. Low's Hypnotic New Album: 'Drums and Guns'
  • A far cry from Keijo's spooky, noise-laden pastiches or Islaja's feral moan, Growing Green is subtly pastoral.
  • There are some spooky goings-on in this Halloween episode of the family comedy. The Sun
  • The smoky melody to the ensuing Ruins makes Jack Wyllie's sax more like a stringed instrument crossed with a trumpet, its quivering vibrato spooky but turning more guttural and free-jazzy as the backbeat pushes on. Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review
  • The spooky drama moves to a new home on E4 for its ninth series. The Sun
  • Romance is a little spooky when you realise you can read a partner's thoughts. The Sun
  • It has got a very spooky feel. The Sun
  • Which seems - forgive the pun - a bit spooky. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apparently I was wasting time that I could have been spending in the pub – I wish I had known that at the time on January 24, 2010 at 3: 07 pm buster as a probationer I wnt to a body hanging in a tree in a wooded area early January, the winter had stripped all leaves and greenery from the trees and it looked spooky a body silhouted against a grey sky. The Love Shack, Baby. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • It made sense to see that they'd cozied themselves within a personal urban pine forest to watch paired kids parade past in colorful and spooky garb.
  • Well after last week's spooky coffee machine imbroglio, when both my coffee maker at work, and the one at home, blew up on the same day… it was time to buy replacements.
  • French german guest guestreader horror indian irish italian jewish joyce krampf latin american new york new zealander pataphysics peruvian playwright poet polish russian satire scandinavian scifi south american southern soviet spanish spooky student swedish women wonderful youth The Burning City | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
  • Nonetheless, the spooky harmonies create a wash that flows over the slight acoustic lilts, creating a very pretty pop moment.
  • It is only two lines long, but its melody, in spooky mode IV, is filled with undulations which remind one of the journey of the Magi. "We have seen his star in the east"
  • The result is spooky disco like this song and the absolute stormer "Are You Anywhere?" which is also included on the new DC compilation Death Before Distemper. Music (For Robots): September 2006 Archives
  • Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone.
  • Singer Kirsty Yates' vocals and spooky lyrics provide the strongest bridge between Earwig past and present.
  • Next, three spooky tales featuring the family. The Sun
  • We find intelligence and life spooky because they maintain a precarious state far from equilibrium.
  • Judge Steve Evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one bit.
  • The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
  • The production design of the spaceship itself is otherworldly and spooky.
  • It does not look out of place: the dark sleeve design features spooky silhouettes instead of the bespectacled schoolboy who grins from covers in Britain.
  • The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's something wrong with the dusty old ranch house, though, as strange sounds and spooky visions begin to haunt the crooks.
  • But seeing it lying there is still slightly spooky. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another exercise in sublimely spooky, Gothy electro from the recent Matador signees. Singles file: Nicki Minaj, Crystal Castles, U.S. Royalty
  • Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
  • The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
  • The top Dublin radio station commissioned magician Keith Barry to wow the crowd of loyal listeners with his freakishly spooky illusionist abilities…
  • In fact, classification is why he says he wants to speak to the spooky senate comities behind bug proof closed doors in the first place! Think Progress » NSA Blocking Whistleblower From Telling Committee About Shocking, Illegal Activities
  • Seen at night, the structure became quite spooky.
  • Spooky was in Wakefield most of the day, getting a tooth filled, and didn't get home until well after dark. 8.8
  • New tenants moved in a few years ago but they are said to be unworried about the house's spooky past.
  • Which neatly brings us to Humans, a new spooky drama about artificial intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
  • This week online clairvoyant Graham Dare provides answers to two spooky spirit sightings.
  • The violins send you to a spooky gothic period and the guitar adds substance to the track.
  • It made sense to see that they'd cozied themselves within a personal urban pine forest to watch paired kids parade past in colorful and spooky garb.
  • Generally, though, this is mainstream music with a spooky gown hastily thrown over it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Must be outgoing, enthusiastic, enjoy long walks in spooky places and you can’t be afraid of the dark (let’s me out.) Ghost Hunters Wanted : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
  • It will no longer be ‘spooky’ if it is a spacious area of grass, flat or hilly, with flowers blooming everywhere and trees regularly planted in rows to mark out the blocks of graves.
  • The village is unpeopled, which makes it spooky.
  • Two years later, the gang reunited at the Spooky Island amusement park, where vacationing college kids were getting mysteriously zombified.
  • The effect is uncannily scary and spooky - you can almost hear the bones rattling.
  • It's not the most appropriate time to review a restaurant with a spooky theme, but I decided not to wait until Halloween as The Witches is definitely worth visiting more than once a year.
  • Then, off to the photo lab, and I developed the two rolls of film (woot, they both came out fine!) and then…(insert spooky music here) went to make some prints.
  • Early Tuesday evening, after Spooky and I picked Sonya up at the train depot, the three of us stopped off at Myopic Books in Wayland Square. "Je nage, mais les sons me suivent."
  • Anything that can grow in the dark is a bit spooky. The Sun
  • Experience the scariest night of the year in the spooky surroundings of Lancaster Castle.
  • Playing 21 shots and then getting brain damage from a tumble down the stairs is a terribly, terribly shitty way to celebrate a birthday. spookyu Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia
  • I waspersonally concerned about this because while I had a hooky one-line for my own manuscript — one that implied action and had a certain spooky promise to it — I knew that it didn’t really capture the emotional flavor of the women’s fiction story I’m writing. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Secrets of the Silver Screen: Irony
  • Spooky and I fell asleep talking about how marvelous is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, especially the Hatter and the March Hare, the Bandersnatch and the battle with the Jabberwocky. "...moments before it spat its rain down on me."
  • She timed her telling so that the cloud engulfed us just as she got to the spooky bit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Spooky corpse-like kids in period costumes pop out at the first available opportunity.
  • The Writers Guild's current contract with the TV networks and movie studios expires at midnight on Halloween, a spooky moment of disharmonic convergence which has created an industry-wide anxiety that feels eerily like a sequel to Y2K. Eric Williams: Creative Differences
  • After work, we drove down to Warwick and picked up Spooky's belated birthday present, a new turntable so that she can begin digitizing the squillion or so pieces of vinyl she has stored at her parents. Glurk (A Love Story)
  • Angela Lansbury picked up her second nomination as a supporting actress for another spooky film, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
  • To me, a cold chill in one corner of a spooky house is a draughty window, not the spirit of someone's dead great, great, great aunt come back to haunt the living.
  • A separate nighttime chase has a built-in televised innocence, but there is a spooky quality to it. Weekend Weirdness Review: John Carpenter’s Elvis Starring Kurt Russell | /Film
  • Spooky spotted a Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia), which was a new one for both of us. "The tides will come and go, witnessed by no waking eye."
  • On the other side, was a set of three mannequin dummies, all dressed up in spooky attire.
  • Ian Hunter mentioned Luther Grosvenor from old record label mates at Island, Spooky Tooth.
  • There is something spooky about how things change in an instant in politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • She looked drugged or ecstatic, smiling with spooky eyes.
  • Spooky Spirits is an addictive puzzle game for players of all ages.
  • Almost the whole team piled around a table covered with spooky tarot cards and voodoo dolls. The Sun
  • Their gibbering hybrid of beer-hall chants, dramatic pseudo-emoting, spooky synths, throbbing rhythms, and tortured, swirling arrangements remained multiform and strange, but were internally consistent.
  • English Heritage will enter into the, ahem, spirit of things, by putting on a series of spooky events in the ruins of Whitby Abbey, including ghost tours, creepy craft activities, twilight falconry displays and Victorian funerals with costumed undertakers and hangmen until 6 November, english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/whitby-abbey. Going goth in Whitby
  • The experience can feel pretty spooky. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shocks aren't shocking, the spooks aren't spooky and any whispers of fear are swamped by the daftness of the plot.
  • Supersticious like i am sometimes and believe in faith and whatnots this is a bit spooky.
  • She timed her telling so that the cloud engulfed us just as she got to the spooky bit. Times, Sunday Times
  • It got a bIt'spooky when James started telling ghost stories.
  • Then, a trio of spooky tales. The Sun
  • The spooky clan meets up with long-lost relatives. Times, Sunday Times
  • He liked their spooky, otherworldly quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has got a very spooky feel. The Sun
  • Oh and I’ll let in spooky, exciting and adventurous too. The Ones That Got Away « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Don't let the undeniably spooky DVD box art fool you: That toothy spook only appears a few times and not in any sort of pervasive or effective manner.
  • The insomnia is back again tonight, and I cannot bear to just lie in bed, listening to Spooky sleep. Instead of sleeping, this.
  • Suraa, Spooky's blood elf paladin, is now at Level 44, because I haven't been playing quite as much, and so she's gotten a little ahead. Entry #2,000
  • Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís i'd like you to be around next year at any rate. i suspect spooky wouldn't mind either. Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig agat. ('10)
  • Next, three spooky tales featuring the family. The Sun
  • As cheesy horror, the movie offers plenty of jump scares, spooky atmosphere, and bloody carnage.
  • Nearby are the remains of a deserted village. Spooky or what?
  • What seems like a spooky coincidence brings a friend back into your life - and they have lucky plans to share. The Sun
  • McQueen said with a laugh, rolling his spooky ice-blue eyes. The Eccentricities of a Couturier
  • Whether the subject matter is spooky or saucy, Western or exotic, these action-packed images capture the interest of collectors for a number of reasons.
  • The question preoccupies me for ages, until at last I drift into this spooky state: half conscious and half asleep. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • Trying to poke holes in the notion of spooky action at a distance, Einstein and two colleagues published a paper in 1935 that appeared to demonstrate the existence of mysterious "hidden variables" and show that quantum theory was incomplete. Science, Spirituality, and Some Mismatched Socks
  • So the spooky prospect of Prime Minister Hague is just too science fiction to scare the Labour herd into the polling booths.
  • The spooky music and lighting add to the disquieting, supernatural mood. Times, Sunday Times
  • (But then, for some reason I've always found spooky stories set in arctic climes to be particularly effective.) 2: 27 PM H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror
  • It reminded me of The Blair Witch Project - a group of researchers take over a spooky old house and discover that one room appears to be haunted by the ghost of a screaming maid.
  • Anything that can grow in the dark is a bit spooky. The Sun
  • To me, a cold chill in one corner of a spooky house is a draughty window, not the spirit of someone's dead great, great, great aunt come back to haunt the living.
  • The downright spooky supernatural aura enhances the staying power of this film in your mind.
  • My blood-elf warlock, Shaharrazad, with the aid of her minion and Spooky's blood-elf paladin, Suraa, attacked a dwarf keep and retrieved a certain sword, which is now safely back in the hands of the Horde. The Best Sort of Weird
  • The endearing symbol of the museum is Spooky, patterned after a great horned owl that was donated to the organization as an owlet in 1951 and which lived to the age of 38 years.
  • They would go and tell each other spooky stories on the hills and the house was always full of laughter.
  • No adventitious spooks are required to account for this-the ‘laws’ of biochemistry and physics are spooky enough.
  • Your love power is a little spooky - just thinking of a name draws that person to your side. The Sun
  • But the second weird element of this spooky tale is that these two wrongs are making a sort of right. Times, Sunday Times
  • The makers were more interested in telling us the movie is spooky than actually making it spooky.
  • However, it was a beautiful day and didn't seem remotely spooky.
  • The 'cliquish', 'clanish', and 'spooky' on-the-job behavior that some have used to characterize LAPD is manifesting itself more and more in the City's fire department. Archive 2009-05-01
  • This mode of suspicion was prevalent during the majority of newscasts that I watched and was heightened by the spooky theme music utilized by every major network as they segued to and from commercial breaks.
  • The beginning, where all the children of Britain freeze, is nicely spooky, but then we cut to Gwen (Eve Myles) getting back to work. Torchwood: Children of Earth » DVDs Worth Watching
  • Were they caused by spooky goings-on? The Sun
  • The next note seems to suggest he was initially thinking of this as something quite spooky. The Sun
  • The village is unpeopled, which makes it spooky.
  • The whole place has a slightly spooky atmosphere.
  • Nearby are the remains of a deserted village. Spooky or what?
  • Spooky's mother says their house is surrounded by wild violets, and male orioles are pecking at the blossoms on the apple trees. It's already tomorrow.
  • What seems like a spooky coincidence brings a friend back into your life - and they have lucky plans to share. The Sun
  • I hesitated outside, listening to the spooky sounds of the pigeons roosting under the roof, but my dinner companions called me a coward and yanked open the door.
  • There is something spooky about how things change in an instant in politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • The spooky music and lighting add to the disquieting, supernatural mood. Times, Sunday Times
  • Aided by the spooky sounds of a theremin, "Radio Play" explores what he called "a fragmented psychology," and leads audiences in and out of familiar and disorientating material—a technique he also employs in his stand-up comedy act. An Old-Fashioned Show in the Hair and Now
  • So the spooky prospect of Prime Minister Hague is just too science fiction to scare the Labour herd into the polling booths.
  • And the addition of vast shadows looming back and forth make it feel spooky rather than openly experimental. Times, Sunday Times
  • Which seems - forgive the pun - a bit spooky. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, you are quite right that many things that have been considered "supernatural" have become considered "natural" after they've been considered scientific long enough (e.g., action at a distance seems pretty spooky and mystical if you are a mechanist). A long, boring post on everybody's favorite topic
  • The opening parade got under way with a colourful fancy dress parade with children dressed in all manner of outfits from fairies and spacemen to cartoon characters and spooky classics.
  • The Commons was infected by the kind of spooky coincidences that tend to happen when spies are involved. Times, Sunday Times
  • But fishnet skirts and spooky spectacles may be good counterprogramming to a legion of stars playing it safe. Oscars 2011 preview: What will viewers be talking about?
  • Their scenes together are riveting and the film builds a spooky and unsettling atmosphere with great economy, while providing a rare insight into small towns and stunted lives.
  • All very spooky and enough to make you never want to go near some parts of the Park ever again.
  • We find intelligence and life spooky because they maintain a precarious state far from equilibrium.
  • He rushes out into the cornfield at the same time as his brother and there is more spooky whispering running through the corn.
  • Rly, rly, rly dark an spooky. ai feer ai is citty gurl at hart! That’s odd…… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The new release, Tino's Breaks 6 Hallowe'en Dub arrives just in time for the spooky season, full of whomping bass lines, booming kick drum, and festive Halloween sound samples.
  • The scientific basis for this quest was the experimental confirmation that once two quantum entities such as electrons have interacted with one another, they remain connected by what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance. Merry-Prankster Physicists
  • Spooky's mom sent us a link to an adorable photo she'd taken of a four-foot-long Northern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor constrictor) she'd had to relocate from the strawberry patch. "This is the lowest we will ever get. It never gets darker."
  • And then they use a theremin to get things really spooky.
  • Children across Bradford will be enjoying spooky shenanigans for Halloween tonight but police are urging that everyone takes care to make sure nothing more sinister happens.
  • I also love the spooky scene when Bowman appears on his wife's TV.
  • And director Gore Verbinski, whose last outing as helmer was the spooky thriller The Ring, handles the action with aplomb while still bringing the best out of his starry cast.
  • Almost the whole team piled around a table covered with spooky tarot cards and voodoo dolls. The Sun
  • At dusk, the giant uptown oaks - with the Spanish moss waving in the wind - looked spooky but reassuring.
  • It would sit comfortably in a genre we'll call Spooky Europe - Goblin's Dario Argento soundtracks, Popol Vuh's wonderful Werner Herzog accompaniment, the slew of exploratory Krautrock records dotting record geek collections, and even Pink Floyd at its jammiest (it's worth noting here that the seventh track is titled "Echoes"). SF Weekly | Complete Issue
  • Join a workshop and make a magic wand to use during spooky storytelling around the grounds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
  • Romance is a little spooky when you realise you can read a partner's thoughts. The Sun
  • This place is so spooky, it's beginning to give me the heebie-jeebies. TICKLED PINK
  • The whole production, however, could do with a change of gear and could be taken more lightheartedly, allowing more fun to be taken of the spooky happenings.
  • To think that just a year ago, the spooky, specter-like Mr. Brownridge showed up at the Wenner holiday bash with none other than right-wing scrump kitten Ann Coulter on his arm. Step Up and Kiss Santy!
  • The experience can feel pretty spooky. Times, Sunday Times
  • The stairs creaked, the attic was spooky, the cellar dim and creepy; there were storage antechambers to every room.
  • Managing to maintain a serious voice throughout, she extols the virtues of the flea in a spooky monotone.
  • Kim sez, "Teardrop Memories is an online store specializing in spooky and arcane antiquities, from funeral cards to embalming supplies, church benches to cribs for dead infants to ... salad forks that advertise a Philly mortuary? Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives
  • Any day that "the rushes" manage to give Spooky the creeps is a day I know I've written well (that is, of course, provided I meant to evoke creepiness that day). "Truth is the bottom of a bottomless well."
  • This is one of the main hallways, with glazed concrete walls and floors, spooky lighting and sculptural seating - big metal soccer ball shapes squashed at the top to create a seat. The Minimalist school
  • In the dry heat of midsummer, this place of rugged beauty is as spooky as it is spectacular - a disaster waiting to happen.
  • His spooky elfin protagonists are seditious and superb at each alternate glance.
  • Spooky turned in earlyish, but he and I were up until after five discussing ... well, lots. Rhine and Courtesan
  • Your love power is a little spooky. The Sun
  • These tracking shots lend a mysterious, sometimes spooky quality to the film.
  • The whole place has a slightly spooky atmosphere.
  • Then, a trio of spooky tales. The Sun
  • Indigenous people who I tell these things to find it spooky, and I have to admit that it's not fun being stalked by creeps.
  • Spooky's even going to be doing a couple of the black velvet/red silk "cozies" to accompany lettered editions of Frog Toes and Tentacles. The days grow larger, and the year keeps shrinking.
  • A spooky lady smiles, nursing something terrible in a parcel.
  • The spooky drama moves to a new home on E4 for its ninth series. The Sun
  • The Commons was infected by the kind of spooky coincidences that tend to happen when spies are involved. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the second weird element of this spooky tale is that these two wrongs are making a sort of right. Times, Sunday Times
  • The less said about the spooky music and creepy lighting the better.
  • Nothing beats a spooky hayride - and it is nearing Halloween, after all.
  • Were they caused by spooky goings-on? The Sun
  • The small shop is jam-packed with clothing, ranging from lace prairie dresses from the 1910s to 1980s couture, worn by mannequins with spooky cat-head masks. Unearthing Treasures in Paris
  • After a spooky tunnel we were out in the sunshine and on Long Lane, the first of three tracks, and a rather austere mile to start with.
  • No people, no houses, no cars, just a wilderness of river-gum trees lining ancient waterless riverbeds, acacias, spinifex grasses and spooky giant termite mounds.
  • On Chewing Glass And Other Miracle Cures, he's bringing the beats and scattered rhymes into the zone of spooky jazz fusion and hallucinogenic acid rock.
  • June 14, 2010 at 8:14 pm hello….um im new to this so dont get mad if i say wtf allot cuz i get comfused alot lol…..so i have a cat i guess whatever hid name is spooky idk why its jus cuz he gets scared like so freaking bad…oh and ive noticed chu guys have talked like whatever .. But….. u sed u lubbed me…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Remember these fish are fast and spooky, you have to make quick accurate casts, often into a twenty knot wind.
  • The constant intrusion of spooky music telling us that we should be really frightened achieves overkill long before the end of the film's running time.
  • Only the ex-beauty queen and the spooky backwoodsman remain halfway normal.
  • To give the feeling that someone is watching and guarding over your spooky home make a dummy or scarecrow.
  • It got a bit spooky when James started telling ghost stories.
  • He lives like a hermit out in the boonies, which is weird and sort of spooky. A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air

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