adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an eerie silence (= one that is strange and rather frightening )
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An eerie silence descended over the house.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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It is usually accompanied by a clarity of distant visibility which is almost eerie at times.
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The relative calm before this convention is almost eerie .
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The Range Rover's lights swept into view, illuminating the torrents of rain, the unusually dark, almost eerie gloom.
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It seems almost eerie that something so stunning can be so silent.
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The absence of negative reaction was almost eerie .
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Eventually I got up and put more wood in the stove, noting an almost eerie blue moonlight outside.
■ NOUN
silence
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Tallis suddenly understood the eerie silence among the clan.
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It was in 1933 when the explosive din suddenly stopped and an eerie silence descended on Boulder Canyon.
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The corridors took on an eerie silence .
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But when bills are introduced in Congress to help curb the epidemic of corporate crime, there is an eerie silence .
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Midnight on Wednesday, 17 July 1918, and an eerie silence fell over no-man's-land.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An eerie howl filled the cave.
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I had the eerie feeling that somebody was watching me.
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The pumps were shut off now. It was eerie , being in the factory without their sound.
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The wind made an eerie sound outside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Flying this kite among the otherwise conventional swept wings on a breezy day was initially eerie .
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I looked at the bleak, eerie landscape nearing us, so utterly different from the comfortable London world of human construction.
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Overhead, a bulb casts an eerie bluish light.
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The approach was eerie because I did it without lights.
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The corridors took on an eerie silence.
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The most impressive thing about the storm was its eerie quiet.
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The voice had an eerie metallic ring to it.
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There was everywhere an eerie atmosphere of impending battle.