How To Use Unearthly In A Sentence
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The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
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A cat less agile than the rest of his species had been known to entangle himself in the little swing window, and to hang there all the night, sending forth unearthly caterwaulings, to the unspeakable terror of Miss Wendover's guest, unfamiliar with the mechanism of the room, and wondering what breed of Hampshire demon or afrit was thus making night hideous.
The Golden Calf
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Over the ruins of the castle rose an unearthly wind, carrying with it an inhuman wail.
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These yield an unearthly effect, especially since the artist has draped his monogram, suspended from a garland, across the top of the picture.
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Vegetarians even have their own central section (the vegetarian bar) on the long buffet table, which is skylit by an unearthly golden glow.
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An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks.
CHAPTER 20
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It was human-shaped, tall and muscular, but it glowed with an unearthly blue light.
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Morgan braced himself as the process began; the whole room shook as the generators began churning out an unearthly hum.
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Over the ruins of the castle rose an unearthly wind, carrying with it an inhuman wail.
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If it's not interrupting teatime viewing of The Simpsons then it's popping up at the most unearthly of hours.
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Cats' cries have an unearthly quality.
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Now they heard the distant baying of house-dogs, now the doleful call of the chuck-will's-widow, and once Mary's blood turned, for an instant, almost to ice at the unearthly shriek of the hoot owl just above her head.
Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
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He set the alarm for 5 a.m. the next day and woke up at what for his household was an unearthly hour.
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Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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There was an unearthly howl in the distance that chilled Zeya to the bone.
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When two writers are involved who happen to be great contemporary poets, artistic equals, the material that explodes out of the depths is bound to be incandescent, exhilarating, unearthly and passionate.
Ted Hughes's final lines to Sylvia Plath bring closure to a tragic tale
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An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks.
CHAPTER 20
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From there on you're woken up at unearthly hours to be continuously tested and prodded.
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They carried us in their wombs for nine months, woke at unearthly hours to tend to our screams.
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The moonbeams caused the gems of elaborate jewelry to glow with an unearthly light, as if they possessed a heart pulse of their own.
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Here was the situation, as I recounted it to myself: somehow, I was trapped in some unearthly dimension where Baltimore, actor Emilio Estevez, and myself had somehow collided in a big cartoon scrum complete with onomatopoeias and clouds of dust.
I'm Not Emilio Estevez
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he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din
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His mates cheered him off at the unearthly hour of 4 a.m. in the pouring rain from a bar that has asked to remain anonymous in the interests of good taste.
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unearthly love
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Whit turned to look at Solace, who was glowing with an unearthly light.
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He complied of course, and stood shading his haggard face in the unwonted sunlight of the great window, looking as wan and unearthly as if he had been summoned from the grave.
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The most stunning demonstration of its unearthly spell occurs late in Pequod's ill-fated voyage, when the ship is illuminated by an eerie outburst of corposants in the midst of a violent squall.
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When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address.
Times, Sunday Times
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She turned back to the television screen, its unearthly blue light washing out her face.
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I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.Sentence dictionary
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His waxy face stills glows an unearthly peach colour above his neatly clipped ginger beard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
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Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the "Jinkimba" or circumcised boys, who received us with unearthly yells.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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She was bewitching, enchanting, graced with an unearthly elegance.
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I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.
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Rock music, prog especially, constantly attempts to evoke certain unearthly worlds via musical experimentation.
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He was powerfully built, tall and brown, with straight black hair to his shoulders, radiating a manly beauty and inner strength that was unearthly in its intensity.
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And when we finally learn what is lurking in the corridor, making all that unearthly din, the reveal is ridiculously rich.
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The language is shouted or perhaps sung by one unmoving performer to the other, creating an unearthly effect.
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Chivalry, pure and passionless women, unearthly beauty, some high southern fantasy possessed them.
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A software engineer's wife was made to take a bath at the unearthly hour of 2 a.m. with ice cold water.
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When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address.
Times, Sunday Times
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These Oreads are peculiar: they come upon you with an unearthly charm, like some starlight evening; they inspire a wild but not warm delight; their beauty is the beauty of spirits: their grace is not the grace of life, but of seasons or scenes in nature: theirs is the dewy bloom of morning - the languid flush of evening - the peace of the moon - the changefulness of clouds.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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The enjambment of ‘un/earthly’ comes across not so much as violent or macabre (as the word unearthly might suggest) but again as hesitation.
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Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way; for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things, -- the worldly, theatrical, and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual, and ethereal.
Among My Books Second Series
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He suggested a meeting at some unearthly hour of the morning.
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They were terrifying and unearthly, eerily bloodchilling as they invoked all evil spirits to possess them.
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When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was unlikely I was going to find Adie playing Space Invaders at such an unearthly hour, but it was worth a try.
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Shrieking yowls rang through the cold trees behind me, unearthly and terrifying, and that fear was all that dragged me to my feet again.
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a night-mare in which the objects and the danger are real, and the spell of corporal death appears to be protractible at the pleasure of the persons who preside at your unearthly torments.
The Room in the Dragon Volant
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I was up at the unearthly hour of 4.30 a.m. to catch an early flight to Paris.
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The other forms relate to threats following a feud between two families, abuses or dialing at unearthly hours and disconnecting before the call is through.
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If you hear a tantrum of unearthly proportions coming from a vaguely northeasterly direction tomorrow afternoonish, sorry for the noise.
A symphony of icepicks « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
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Her strange, unearthly beauty is undimmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unearthly silence was broken by a shrill screaming.
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Jake heard an odd, unearthly, high-pitched noise, and then the lights went back on.
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Vegetarians even have their own central section (the vegetarian bar) on the long buffet table, which is skylit by an unearthly golden glow.
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When local Poirier made the trip from minimal techno to hip hop, he made sure to keep his unearthly sense of abstractionism intact.
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His temperature leaps by bounds, his cheeks are flushed crimson, his pulse beats fast, and his eyes wear an altogether unearthly aspect.
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Then the alarm will be set for some unearthly hour to sort things out.
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The coals in the hearth glowed a dull red in prospect and the space echoed with unearthly silence.
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A seething hangover that needed walking off sent me there at such an unearthly hour, but the pain is optional.
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I put up my collages and paintings and calendars and messages, and then got some blue lights to give the room an unearthly look.
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That meant getting out of bed at the unearthly hour of 4 a. m!
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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This sense of a calm veneer hiding seething depths also afflicts the movie's other unearthly surface - the opalescent face and underwater-green eyes of Swinton herself.
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From then on, the young bluesman played his instrument with an unearthly style, his fingers dancing over the strings.
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When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now how many healthy heads will be there at that unearthly hour?
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She heard the sirens scream their unearthly wail.
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But constantly barking dogs at an unearthly hour is a part of life which can be avoided.
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A scarlet, stony wasteland of laterite soil stretches in all directions under a silver sky - an unearthly sort of beauty.
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When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address.
Times, Sunday Times
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This morning the alarm went off at the unearthly hour of 6 am which we've not seen for over a week and were surprised to see it was now dark at this time in the morning.
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At one point, all 10 multi-instrumentalists set down their axes in the middle of a piece and sang in gentle, unearthly harmony.
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There was something strange in that moment when she looked at him, something unearthly and mysterious.
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It was - there is no other word for it - unearthly.
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One was playing with two glass marbles, rolling them from hand to hand, completely ignoring the unearthly commotion going on around him.
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Now they heard the distant baying of house-dogs, now the doleful call of the chuck-will's-widow, and once Mary's blood turned, for an instant, almost to ice at the unearthly shriek of the hoot owl just above her head.
Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
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They may as well have gone to the zoo - it would have been much cheaper and they wouldn't have had to rise at some unearthly hour.
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The wind howled in an unearthly never-ending scream, whistling through the gnarled, twisted trees.
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Colors strobed and whirled about the room, giving it an unearthly feel.
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The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
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All of a sudden we heard an unearthly cry.
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They attempt to explore every avenue, but don't have any problems accepting that this mystery might have a unearthly solution.
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And once they got by that, the stranger was greeted by an unearthly surprise.
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The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle's complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.
August 19th, 2008
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Chivalry, pure and passionless women, unearthly beauty: the high Southern fantasy possessed them.
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The hills were an unearthly shade of green and the low patches of fog haloed the peaks of the trees, making them tall saints, staring down benevolently at the wet quiet of the valley.
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He tugged at his feet, managed to get one forehoof loose, but the rest were caught fast in the unearthly stone.
Villains by Necessity
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The sound was so serene that it seemed unearthly.
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Connected to the terrible lucidity of the condemned man in the tumbril is the unearthly lucidity of the pre-epileptic aura, bliss without time or space, eternity in an instant.
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Send important e-mails at unearthly hours like 9.35 p.m. or 7.05 a.m. and during public holidays.
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Good – Conscience; he is an austere, unearthly friend, whom maybe Torquemada knew; and the folds of his raiment are not merely claustral, but have something of the horror of the pall.
Lay Morals
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She let out an unearthly scream of joy as she won by a wheel after 78 gruelling miles.
The Sun
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Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
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Just as I exited the shower, dripping wet, there was an unearthly commotion from somewhere close by.
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The face is pale and perhaps slightly unearthly, with a high forehead sharply defined against red-gold hair.
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I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.
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I groped my way out again as fast as possible, heedless of idols and all other antiquities, seized a cigarito from the hand of the astonished prefect, who was wisely smoking at the entrance, lighted it, and inhaled the smoke, which seemed more fragrant than violets, after that stifling and most unearthly odour.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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The ball shone with an unearthly light, further distressing the fish that had not yet discovered a way out.
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His waxy face stills glows an unearthly peach colour above his neatly clipped ginger beard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though as I got to the front window I almost wished that the men had got there first as there was something a bit weird and unearthly about the driver.
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Woken as I was this morning at some unearthly hour by the sound of rain falling against the window I scrambled bleary eyed out of bed to this sight.
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There was something of an unearthly ease about the second try as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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The camp appeared kind of unearthly from a short distance away - two tiny bright yellow pyramid tents, four wooden sledges, and two shining orange toboggans in a vast sea of white, dwarfed by the awesome, dark brown brooding mountains.
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His dark eyes seemed to be contemplating unearthly mysteries, which is an unusual sight in one so young.
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An unearthly calm seemed to come over him then, and there was a feeling of deadly malice, of hate and violence radiating from him that made her flinch from his stare.
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Our destination at that unearthly hour was the 4,850 m Sol de Mañana geyser basin, unfortunately best seen before sunrise.
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Here its unearthly timbres lend yet more sense of dislocation to many of the textures in the opera.
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The wind unleashed another unearthly wail that sent a chill rushing through his entire body.
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an unearthly light
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You must suppose a real night-mare — I mean a night-mare in which the objects and the danger are real, and the spell of corporal death appears to be protractible at the pleasure of the persons who preside at your unearthly torments.
The Room in the Dragon Volant
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I had to go to Oxenholme Station at some unearthly hour of the morning to collect from the security men a press pass which would let me follow the Queen around when she toured Westmorland later that day.
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His eyes shone with an unearthly light.
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There was no other word to describe it but unearthly, and foreign.
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His waxy face stills glows an unearthly peach colour above his neatly clipped ginger beard.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a rainy old day from the very start, waking me at some unearthly hour with the unfamiliar noise of water running in the gutters and down-pipes.
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I didn't sleep a wink last night for thinking about everything, hence the unearthly earliness of these posts.
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It was quite a crowd, radiantly resplendent in displays of unearthly power and beauty.
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I looked back to the upholstered heights and listened to unearthly sounds pooled in the amphitheatre of hills.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address.
Times, Sunday Times
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He went rigid with excitement and did a jig around the living room, keening an unearthly croon of delight.
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All of a sudden we heard an unearthly cry.
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She dispelled my early conjectures about my own children's unearthly wisdom and helped me realize that virtually everything they did and said came from practicing what they saw and heard.
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MacGregor had trailed her maligned "fluffiness" away to the drawing-room, and Nevill and Stephen had strolled with their cigarettes out into the unearthly whiteness of the lily garden, Stephen felt that something was coming.
The Golden Silence
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His unearthly voice came from offstage, bringing news from somewhere it seemed only he could help us imagine.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He trusted Rourke with his own life and the safety of the ship; there was no question of the man's capability, but the wild look in those eyes was something unearthly.
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The storm had passed by sunset, and then the world shone with an unearthly light out of a Turner painting.
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The second image was of a windswept, fork-bearded and eagle-eyed man of craggy features, huge and solid, wearing boots and an Inverness cape, next to his wife, a diminutive and elflike waif with a strange and unearthly smile.
INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
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She smiled at him, the glowing buttons casting an unearthly light on her face.
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As Sally, Alyson Hannigan does an unearthly impression of the young Meg Ryan: complete with pert and self-satisfied little smirk and reedy, weedy voice.
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The sea reflected our good fortune in hues of glassy green, turquoise and cobalt blue and into this unearthly vision we quietly launched our sailing barque.
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The G-based octachord which seems to be the harmonic goal of the piece is framed by quiet chanting, the voice supported by the unearthly koto and the severely cadential chimes of the ensemble.
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And when, kneeling, she poured out her soul in prayer, her words seemed so many winged angels, musical with unearthly harpings of an untold blessedness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
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Globes of light blazed up and down its length, and the white rectangles painted on asphalt glowed unearthly.
