The bearer of the lamp had dropped it, but the dim, eerily illuminated gloom endured scarce a second.
As we passed downstairs the howling of the mastiff sounded eerily through the house, as did the clank-clank of the tightening chain as he threw the weight of his big body upon it.
To the right from the dank water of a quarry pool abandoned long since to catfish and willows, a milk-white mist was rising eerilyinto the moonlight.
The tossing boughs beyond the window, rain-spattered and somber, took on eerily the outline of dark-cloaked women keeners rocking and chanting the music of death.
Suddenly he came to a slough, a thirty-foot-wide stretch of water whose surface eerily reflected the dim light that filtered from stars.
The owl came so silently and so eerily that, somehow, it seemed to have materialized out of thin air.
My humor enters into it, in no obvious way but eerily like a gay ghost.
I am too personally fastidious, too temperamentally dishonest, too eerilywavering to walk in direct repellent roads of vice even in freest moods.
The fog lapped and curled dankly round the Hercules that night, wrapping the ship in a clammy shroud of cold moisture that dripped eerilyfrom the rigging and sent a chill to the marrow of the bones of the men and officers on watch.
High up in the City Hall tower at the head of the street Big Ben boomed two ponderous notes which flung eerily across the city.
They had gone but a short distance into the woods, however, before both of them stopped abruptly and listened to a strange sound which carried to them eerily in the quiet night with all the mystery of the unaccountable.
While a blast, harsh as the scream of a fire siren, echoed and re-echoed eerily through the passage, there appeared a fresh detachment.
The cold weeds of the sea-floor kelp beds swayed eerily over and around it.
It was the most eerily silent place in which I had ever found myself.
But it seemed to me, and the closer I watched him the more convinced I became, that this was no optical illusion, that a faint luminosity, a sort of elfin light, played eerily about his head!
Trade was liberalized, inflation tamed, the currency was made freely convertible and the exchange rate eerily sustained (rather, suspended).
He quits the government - a response eerily civilized judging by his previous record.
He pauses, with his hollow, burning eyes fixed eerily upon her, waiting her reply.
The yellow firelight flashed in brilliance from the eerily thin leaping flame figures, and suddenly, Si'Wren became one of them.
Eerily tall, the tireless shapes of the dancing girls pranced and danced and jumped and leaped to the distant music from Master Rababull's House.
Over the glacial expanse an eerily greenish phosphorescence, which palpitated and shifted at times with vivid splashes of opal and deeper tones of burning blue, hung low.
A bad end," concurred the magical echo, its accent and intonation eerily reproducing those of the gamekeeper.
A stiff wind from the open lake was whipping up battalions of whitecaps that dancedeerily in the starlight.
A rug slipped and the fugitive fell with a frightened yell that rang eerily through the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eerily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: awfully; monstrously; mysteriously; peculiarly; singularly
