What is "eerie"

Usage examples of "eerie".

He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon.

Carpenter seemed like a man talking in his sleep: his voice was flat, affectless, eerie in its tranquillity.

The ambience was eerie in the extreme, and the smoldering embers were gruesomely suggestive of the contours of a human form.

Sir Arthur turned on the headlamps of the autocar, and the beams pierced the dimness, casting eerie shadows and picking out the twisted branches of trees.

It was hardly more than a guess that Mcllwraith was holding Edward Walpole in the vicinity of Bordon Grove, even if the guess had come to Spandrel with an eerie weight of conviction.

As she untangled the cloth from about her head, a new sound rose in the byre, eerie and harrowing.

Clues to the cache lead him to a location beneath the ocean floor-near strange Easter Island, with its eerie ruins.

Copernik the line had been electrified, and the lack of coal smoke and the pounding, chuffing sound of a steam locomotive was a little eerie.

His eerie stutter spiraled down her cochleae to the bottom of her ears and seemed to leap from there into her spine, vibrating from vertebra to vertebra, shaking shivers from her.

Kerwick had been overjoyed, more so than she, he knew, for when she grew troubled, her father had once told him, she always plucked idly upon the crwth as she had done that night long ago, making an odd melody that sounded eerie in the great hall.

The bay doors were currently open, the faint blue glow of the force field that kept the atmosphere in lending an eerie cyanic glow to the parked vehicles.

A shang storm drove through in the evening, and Lallillir dehisced in glitter like a burning palace, so eerie and awful, so splendid that the travelers must halt and behold it.

City Walk, the eerie hollow sounds of the didgeridoo drifted through the warm air and around the lunchtime shoppers.

He recalled how the street seemed inanely alive with the horrid cheer that haunted zoos and menageries, how the cries of bird sellers, of puppy wallahs and cat peddlers intermingled and created an eerie and disturbing echolalia, at once mocking of and mocked by the chatter of their caged and staring stock in trade.

He gestured around, seeing some of the eerie drawings and effigies placed around.