UNCANNY in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for UNCANNY, such as:

1. She seemed uncanny and fateful.
2. there was something uncanny about him.
3. Yes, it's rather an uncanny place altogether.
4. There was something wild and uncanny about the place.
5. There was something uncanny and underground about it all.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNCANNY
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uncanny
 a.  strange; mysterious; peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature
Classic Sentence:
1  This was all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came upon me, and I was afraid to speak or move.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I listened to her breathlessly.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  There was something wild and uncanny about the place.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  there was something uncanny about him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
5  She seemed uncanny and fateful.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
6  She looked up, and was more startled still to see Clifford watching her with pale, uncanny eyes, like hate.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  There was something uncanny and underground about it all.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  When he was out among men, seeking his own ends, and 'making good' his colliery workings, he had an almost uncanny shrewdness, hardness, and a straight sharp punch.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  Yes, it's rather an uncanny place altogether.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
10  The people about me are like some uncanny, half-human beings.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
11  In these chutes the stream of animals was continuous; it was quite uncanny to watch them, pressing on to their fate, all unsuspicious a very river of death.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  He had never caught even a glimpse of the boy and had heard a dozen exaggerated stories about his uncanny looks and ways and his insane tempers.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  "Yes, there is something uncanny, devilish and fascinating in her," Kitty said to herself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
14  It was cold and uncanny in the rapid current in the middle of the stream, and the uhlans caught hold of one another as they fell off their horses.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  Every night we hear the great owls hoot and laugh in uncanny fashion.
2  Clinton had an uncanny ability to sense the pulse of the nation.