How To Use Uncannily In A Sentence
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The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
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The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
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The idea is to reveal how animals can seem uncannily human.
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He then describes the whole picture, uncannily, a few bursts of colour cluing him into the puzzle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile a Russian-Italian team found a much stronger cosmic string candidate in the constellation Corvus: a galaxy split into two uncannily similar and completely undistorted images.
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The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
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Unlike the antisemite, the “a-semite” does not deny humanity to the Jew or call for hatred of him, but presents him as an Other, sometimes exotically enticing, sometimes uncannily repugnant, who is not entirely assimilable to France.
Charlotte Wardi.
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The film does not purport to be a documentary, but its depiction of the events of January 30 1972 is uncannily accurate.
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Uncannily, Wakefield ‘had contrived, or rather he had happened, to dissever himself from the world - to vanish - to give up his place and privileges with living men, without being admitted among the dead’.
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He was unapproachable, sometimes rude, always sarcastic, but it was also clear that he was uncannily observant.
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Rather worryingly, one of the drivers I heard this afternoon sounded uncannily like a BBC continuity announcer I know.
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Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career.
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Orlean's experiences with poultry-keeping are uncannily similar to mine; her crowing "hen" is Laura, ours was Loretta.
Jan Brett's Weekend House
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She's more of a cabaret popster whose uncluttered arrangements leave plenty of room for her expressive voice (which is, at times, uncannily similar to that of our Emm Gryner).
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He even proved uncannily accurate in anticipating the Florida launch site, Pacific Ocean splashdown, and recovery by U.S. naval forces of the Apollo missions.
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Other than that, the recommendations are uncannily familiar: We must internationalize our conflicts.
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Uncannily she appears: an ill-favoured old crone who is transformed into fresh young Papagena once he engages to marry her.
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The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
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But they looked uncannily similar in their flowing strapless gowns and smoky make-up.
The Sun
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It's not so much theatrical now as an uncannily atmospheric setting for a scene from Gladiator.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have uncannily similar voices.
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Eliot's illness uncannily mirrored his wife's.
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Memory foam pillow top were transmontane with curtained whisky and greed than any pyrolignic sumptuosity damnatory in the aortic maimed and a uncannily.
Rational Review
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The artists lit them against black backdrops to create uncannily accurate portraits.
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She is an elderly woman, lying on her back with obvious angulated fractures of her lower legs as well as the left side of her face being uncannily flat save the large hematoma on her forehead.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The horse's gait changed to a gallop, and the muffled rhythm of the hoof beats crescendoed until they were uncannily loud and hollow.
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The days were getting longer, the blossom was on the trees and even in our back garden, the barren earth was being pierced by what look uncannily like daffs and tulips.
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But the commuter train is half empty, the flow of traffic at rush hour is uncannily smooth.
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Cornelio - I have to laugh because the name "Cornelio" sounds uncannily like the Italian word "cornuto," which is now a general term of insult but which originally meant
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The uncannily accurate spelling correction and word prediction on Windows Phone?
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Her predictions turned out to be uncannily accurate.
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With effort, she raised herself into a sitting position and realized that her head was uncannily heavy.
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Proctor is also top-notch, and uncannily reminiscent of Will Ferrell.
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Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
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All the more striking, then, are the resemblances between their early experiences, in many respects uncannily close.
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Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
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The effect is uncannily scary and spooky - you can almost hear the bones rattling.
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But they looked uncannily similar in their flowing strapless gowns and smoky make-up.
The Sun
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With its wobbly sets, sensationalist plots, appalling acting, crude camerawork and dopey dialogue it was uncannily reminiscent of bad soaps in general.
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What he writes about York corresponds uncannily with my memory of what actually happened and includes anecdotal material which I have not seen written down anywhere else.
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Perversely, the massed violins, violas and cellos can sometimes sound uncannily like a lone synthesiser.
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The auto has a paddle-shifter on each side of the steering wheel - right for up, left for down - and uncannily the system has a device called downshift rev matching, causing one passenger to remark: "I thought this was an automatic.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Uncannily, the amount of energy involved is sufficient to have caused the increases in atmospheric temps since the rise of Industrialization.
Matthew Yglesias » Fred Hiatt Won’t Correct Dishonest Climate Change Columns, Will Lecture Congress on How to Handle Climate Change
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The setting is uncannily deserted but for these two and the conversation rich with non sequiturs, but the real quirk comes when the flick-knife is laid down on a seat behind them only to have disappeared when they next turn to look for it.
Archive 2008-08-01
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The horse's gait changed to a gallop, and the muffled rhythm of the hoof beats crescendoed until they were uncannily loud and hollow.
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Uncannily she appears: an ill-favoured old crone who is transformed into fresh young Papagena once he engages to marry her.
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The skies cracked as a shaft of lightning, unleashed with the power of electrical fury, uncannily sped towards his still form on the ground.
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Despite these differences, their exhibitions are uncannily complementary.
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For invigorating countryside, soul-stirring views and pristine hamlets that offer an uncannily accurate insight into life in the 1950s.
Times, Sunday Times
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uncannily human robots
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Blake is blessed with one of the strongest arms in the league, which allows him to uncork uncannily accurate deep balls and stretch defenses vertically.
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The cover of his new book may feature the classic Ripper mugshot alongside the numerous - and uncannily accurate - photofits received by police during the years, but this is not a book about Peter Sutcliffe.
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Gibson became an international sensation with his first novel Neuromancer, in which he outlined a strange future world existing in a state he called "cyberspace" - uncannily like the world we inhabit almost 30 years later - and went on to win every major science-fiction award while contributing to making the genre respectable in literary circles.
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But they looked uncannily similar in their flowing strapless gowns and smoky make-up.
The Sun