Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: By dawn on Thursday we were in Germany driving through a low lying mist which made the countryside look eerie.

Modifies a noun

• silence: There was an eerie silence for a few minutes.

• glow: The moon was rising, which gave an eerie glow to the water.

• resemblance: This book bears an eerie resemblance to a 9/11 style attack for a book written in the mid-1970's.

• echo: It added an eerie echo to the " ripple " of the terror.

• coincidence: Then there was one of those strange, eerie coincidences.

• atmosphere: The eerie atmosphere was there with some good, effective camera work in the woods.

Modifying Another Word

• suitably: On the plus side, the soundtrack itself is suitably eerie, reflecting the rather bizarre world the children are thrust into.

• slightly: In this slightly eerie basement venue, I was starting to feel a little lost in time.

• somewhat: Further down the lane, note the somewhat eerie gothic Houghton Manor.

• almost: It's almost eerie how many Stephen Tucker's out there are in the artistic / computer world.

• rather: Based around the simplest of guitar parts and a rather eerie keyboard, Roy croons on be touched up.

• quite: There is something quite eerie about the extinct cones.

Infinitive complement

• think: The sand dunes are spectacular and it is eerie to think that there are as many as 14 villages buried under the shifting sands.

Used with adjective complement

• look: The people, on the other hand, look eerie.

• sound: Some lonesome harmonica was also thrown in, sounding eerie in the setting of the song.

• get: When we were on standby at weekends, and if the sea fog rolled in, it got very eerie.

• seem: Our isolated position in the depths of Repulse made this silence seem eerie.

• become: As it was virtually dusk the sound became slightly eerie in this light.

Preposition: in

• light: As it was virtually dusk the sound became slightly eerie in this light.