eerily
in a spooky or uncanny way that makes one uneasy; weirdly:The town empties out eerily at this time of day, giving it a ghostly appearance that visitors find disconcerting.
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We could geek out about how the dual-camera technology on the S6 MaxV uses AI to vacuum and mop while avoiding obstacles in your house, delivering eerily clean floors.
Luxury Tech Gifts for the People You Really Love | Gabriela Aoun and Joe Jackson | November 10, 2020 | Outside OnlineLandmark hotels, which have long served as downtown gathering places and backdrops for the holiday season, are eerily, strangely vacant, having lost well over half their business and told most of their staff that they are not needed.
For the most part, agency and brand respondents hold eerily similar views of what’s important and what is not.
Digiday Research: Media, marketing, retail sectors reveal their top issues ahead of the 2020 election | Max Willens | October 15, 2020 | DigidayUnder the glowing cabin lights of a westbound red-eye flight on April 3, 1954, James found himself eerily alone.
To Find Hope in American Cooking, James Beard Looked to the West Coast | John Birdsall | October 2, 2020 | EaterWhile the film eerily overlaps with aspects of the socially distant times we live in today, filmmaker Eleanor Wilson came up with the concept three years ago while in upstate New York with bad cell phone reception.
Inside ‘Save Yourselves!’—a socially distant comedy for our times | radmarya | October 1, 2020 | Fortune
The inauguration had to be held in the fortified Kremlin, surrounded by an eerily quiet city.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015 | Movements.Org | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe house was eerily silent on a Friday morning after a huge party.
I Was Gang Raped at a UVA Frat 30 Years Ago, and No One Did Anything | Liz Seccuro | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEach of the women had eerily similar stories that they offered to share on the stand.
And yet his music, to the end, although sometimes almost eerily serene, remained most often volcanic.
Without context, subtlety, and commentary, a parody begins to look eerily like the scenario it is attempting to skewer.
The wind whistled eerily through the scant-leaved scrub-oaks on the slopes above.
Port O' Gold | Louis John StellmanIt floated eerily in no orbit around anything, going nowhere; doing nothing.
Pariah Planet | Murray Leinster"A bad end," concurred the magical echo, its accent and intonation eerily reproducing those of the gamekeeper.
The Orchard of Tears | Sax RohmerA raucous laugh interrupted the Mercurian's feeble voice, and it echoed eerily from the walls of the chamber.
Astounding Stories, June, 1931 | VariousThrough the deep monotone of the breakers he could hear the land breeze sigh eerily about the building.
The League of the Leopard | Harold Bindloss
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