435 examples of uncanny in sentences

One could imagine things lurking among the tangled bushes; while, in the very air of the place, there seemed something uncanny.

" "That atonement theory is an uncanny doctrine.

"These brackish, threatening deeps remind me of all sorts of weird and uncanny things; Stygian poolsLethewhat not mystic and terrifying.

I could fancy myself on an uncanny pilgrimage, seeking some demon delight.

He had achieved some memorable successes and he had made a few failures, but the failures belonged to the earlier portion of his career, before he had learnt to trust thoroughly in his own great gifts of intuition and insight, and that uncanny imagination which sometimes carried him successfully through when all else failed.

What would be the answer of the man who was believed not only to have made himself the possessor of this ring, but to have taken a most strange and uncanny method of disposing of it afterward?

I thought so, and was on the point of satisfying this wonder by a quick advance upon this stranger, when there happened an uncanny thing, which held me in check from sheer astonishment.

She was not afraid, but there was something uncanny in being surrounded by such savage creatures.

In and out of the bluish ice caves he flits and sings, and his singing heard from above is sweet and uncanny like the Nixie's chord.

In the uncanny silence that followed the sound of her voice, the sawing noise sounded regularly, rhythmically.

For hours these uncanny dogs had puzzled me, a score of vicious, hungry brutes that drew the sledges in winter and that picked up a vagabond living in the idle summer by hunting rabbits and raiding the fishermen's flakes and pig-pens and by catching flounders in the sea as the tide ebbed.

For hours the uncanny comedy would drag itself on into the tense midnight silence, the wailing cry growing more demented and heartrending as the spell of ancient days fell again upon the degenerate huskies.

The cub moved away startled and tried to soothe his wound again; but the uncanny feeling was strong upon him still, and when he turned his head there was the big wolf, which had crept forward till he could see the cub behind a twisted spruce root, watching him steadily with the same horrible stare in his unblinking eyes.

I mean a queer, uncanny feeling that you sort of can't make out.

He came close up to the little table in front of Lady Maulevrier's couch, and looked down at her, a strange, uncanny being, withered and bent, with pale, faded eyes in which there was a glimmer of unholy light.

It occurs among bats, a tribe of obscure creatures about which common knowledge amounts to this, that they fly about after sunset, are uncanny, and fond of getting entangled in the hair of ladies, and should be killed.

He's trying to see things with your eyes, feeling them with your nerves, and since he's got a kind of uncanny penetration, I'd be willing to bet that he can tell you, half the time, what you're thinking about better than you could yourself.

The housemaid came to regard the instrument as something uncanny, and, even as the cook had done before her, shook the dust of the house of Carson from her feet.

Crossing the canyon, they climbed the Oak Knoll traildown which the artist and Conrad Lagrange had been led by the uncanny wisdom of Croesus, a few weeks beforeto the pipe-line.

Yet by some sixth uncanny sense of the blind he was aware that Manuel was standing in the dusk of the entry joining the shop to the house.

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But instead of that, my uncanny sensations increased.

Takahashi must have possessed an uncanny knowledge of the effects of heat.

For some unknown reason, as the Legionaries grouped themselves about their Master, an uncanny influence seemed to emanate from this singular object.

But distance and time allay the memories of such uncanny works.

435 examples of  uncanny  in sentences