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  • adjective comparative form of eerie: more eerie

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Examples

  • The spectral shimmer of Terra Incognita is eerier still, especially when Cox beckons "Will you join me?" in a voice as seductive as it is chilling.

    Atlas Sound: Parallax – review 2011

  • One of the things that I enjoyed the most of listening to War of the Worlds on audiobook compared to the movie is how much eerier it was.

    Movie Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • As an alternative to "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo, try: "Ghost Town" by The Specials, another '80s-era favorite, but with an eerier, ska vibe.

    Five tracks for your Halloween playlist Jen Chaney 2010

  • To me, it felt more like the eerier stories of Joyce Carol Oates — starting out in the mundane and taking a turn that can be interpreted as supernatural, or not.

    BILLY BOY • by Aaron Polson 2010

  • As 2011 begins, what could be eerier than reading secret Soviet documents from the USSR's Afghan debacle of the 1980s?

    Tom Engelhardt: The Urge to Surge: Washington's 30-Year High Tom Engelhardt 2011

  • My late friend, Norm Strung, was once in a stand of live oaks in Louisiana, and there are few places eerier than a Deep South live oak forest with the trees all hung with Spanish moss.

    The Sounds of Silence 2008

  • FY: The isolated, snow-covered college setting of the film gives it an even eerier feel.

    Interview with David Morwick, Director of Little Erin Merryweather 2010

  • Where before there existed a mostly upper-middle-class semisuburban enclave of well-kept houses and larger-than-average lawns (along with their two-car garages and well-landscaped flora), now it was, all of it, land reduced to a charred, smoking stubble, still burning so strong it made your eyes water; the only way anyone might have known houses had ever stood there was from the occasional semi-crumbled brick chimney (or, even eerier, set of stone steps, now leading nowhere).

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • And eerier still, because they say everything you need to say about Beck's people, and they were written by D.H. Lawrence.

    Chris Kelly: The Secret Relevance of Glenn Beck's 9/11 Show REVEALED 2010

  • And eerier still, because they say everything you need to say about Beck's people, and they were written by D.H. Lawrence.

    Chris Kelly: The Secret Relevance of Glenn Beck's 9/11 Show REVEALED 2010

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