EERIE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for EERIE, such as:

1. I walked down the eerie dark path.
2. As I entered the corridor which led to my room that eerie feeling came over me.
3. In that eerie setting, it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.
4. She was aware of the rapping of a woodpecker, then of the wind, soft and eerie through the larches.
5. She peered about her uncertainly and the feeling grew, eerie but familiar, and her head went up sharply like an animal scenting danger.

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 Meanings and Examples of EERIE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eerie
 a.  suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
Classic Sentence:
1  I caressed him, and he wagged his great tail; but he looked an eerie creature to be alone with, and I could not tell whence he had come.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  She peered about her uncertainly and the feeling grew, eerie but familiar, and her head went up sharply like an animal scenting danger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
3  She was aware of the rapping of a woodpecker, then of the wind, soft and eerie through the larches.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  I walked down the eerie dark path.
2  As I entered the corridor which led to my room that eerie feeling came over me.
3  In that eerie setting, it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.
4  The streets of Beijing are thronged with two-wheeled contraptions; some appear to be conventional petrol mopeds but their eerie silence and lack of exhaust reveals them as electric.