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- adjective
superlative form ofeerie : mosteerie .
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Examples
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One of the eeriest was a great horned owl a couple of years ago.
unknown title 2009
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It has been the eeriest coincidence to watch the events in Egypt unfold on television while workers at the Madison Hotel protest the lodging's new Danish owner, who the union says "have refused to accept the terms of the existing contract."
Egypt: 'The people united...' Jonathan Capehart 2011
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It's the darkest; it goes into the scariest, eeriest places; it required taking hard looks at frightening things, so it was emotionally draining.
Diana Abu-Jaber discusses her true identity with Origin 2010
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During the writing of The Ice Child, I would also get the eeriest feeling if I were late starting work any morning -- as if a lot of unseen people were willing me to get going.
A Conversation with Elizabeth McGregor, author of The Ice Child 2010
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Those lava-flow saxophones aren't even the eeriest thing about "Paul Motian on Broadway, Volume 5."
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Perhaps the eeriest insight into the designer's final weeks was a dress imprinted with a scene from Bosch's triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights," which shows the artist's hellish conception of the afterlife.
McQueen's Angels and Demons Christina Binkley 2010
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Mr. Hopper's eeriest performance was in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" (1986) as a gas-sniffing sadist named Frank Booth.
Dennis Hopper, actor and director of 'Easy Rider,' dies 2010
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Olivia said, “There is the eeriest old woman on one of the delivery routes.”
Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010
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Mr. Hopper's eeriest performance was in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" (1986) as a gas-sniffing sadist named Frank Booth.
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Those lava-flow saxophones aren't even the eeriest thing about "Paul Motian on Broadway, Volume 5."
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