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Sentences ending with uncanny

It was almost uncanny. [11]
He glanced at the cables in silence, while Krool watched him narrowly, covertly, with a depth of purpose which made his face uncanny. [11]
He didn't inherit that strain, but your grandfather and your great-grandfather had it--sportsmen both, afraid of nothing, with big minds, great eyes for seeing, and a sense for a winner almost uncanny. [11]
They looked so strange, so uncanny. [11]
She shrank a little: it seemed uncanny. [11]
Their yarn must be uncanny. [4]
I never saw a human being so noiseless, so uncanny. [11]
It was uncanny. [5]
It was uncanny. [11]

Short sentences using uncanny

It had an uncanny appearance. [5]
There's something uncanny about it. [5]

Sentences containing uncanny two or more times

There was not a sound, not the whisper of a leaf; just perfect stillness; an uncanny kind of stillness, which was all the more uncanny on account of the damp, earthy, late-night smells now rising and pervading it. [5]

More example sentences with the word uncanny in them

When "Potter the ventriloquist," the predecessor of the well-remembered Signor Blitz, went round giving his entertainments, there was something unexplained, uncanny, almost awful, and beyond dispute marvellous, in his performances. [6]
The insane and uncanny variety of fruits--the sudden withering--all these things are helps. [5]
It is almost uncanny they should be there just when they're most needed. [11]
There was something uncanny in this self-control, this sang froid with which he was wont to sit at boards waiting unmoved for the time when he should draw his net about his enemies, and strangle them without pity. [9]
There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents. [9]
There is something uncanny about it. [5]
Macavoy had uncanny tricks with his voice, and presently he changed the song into a shrill, wailing whistle, which went trembling about the place and then stopped suddenly. [11]
His face became transformed, alive with a passion uncanny in its recklessness and purpose. [11]
A shudder passed through the circle, for the uncanny face and the weird utterance had the strange reality of fate. [11]
It gave for the instant an uncanny look to the face, almost something malicious. [11]
Nobody else knew that a procession of the dead was passing though this noisy swarm of the living, but there it was, and to me there was nothing uncanny about it; Rio, they were welcome faces to me. [5]
But there were such strange crackings in the shrubs, and the trees and bushes cast such uncanny shadows that she hailed daybreak as a deliverance. [10]
There was indeed something uncanny about this night-walking, for even now it seemed incomprehensible how she had reached the beam, which was at least the height of three men above the floor. [10]
As he drank she noticed a peculiar, uncanny twitching of the fingers and eyelids. [11]
There was no reason why he should not care to meet the Master Man, but he always had an uncanny feeling when his eye met that of Ingolby. [11]
The uncanny feeling possessing him increased; the thing was unnatural. [11]
She was startled out of her reflections by a remark of almost uncanny penetration on the part of Mr. Cuthbert. [9]
Suddenly, he flashed out at me one of those remarks which produced the uncanny conviction that, so far as affairs in the city were concerned, he was omniscient. [9]
He had prompted old Diaz Pasha to speak of him as a reincarnation, so separate and withdrawn he seemed at the end of the evening, yet with an uncanny mastery in his dark brown eyes. [11]
All the rest of the day the mother's brain was busy with excited thinkings; with plans, projects, schemes, each and all of them uncanny, grim, and dark. [5]
One mighty groan of terror started up from the massed people --then suddenly broke into a wild hosannah of joy--for there, fair and plain in the uncanny glare, they saw the freed water leaping forth! [5]
Socially he had never, as it were, seen through a ladder; and Jasmine's almost uncanny brilliance of repartee and skill in the delicate contest of the mind had ever been a wonder to him, though less so of late than earlier in their married life. [11]
I had stripped myself of my disguise, and rubbed the phosphorus from my person as we came along, but enough remained to make me an uncanny figure. [11]
It is a most uncanny stone. [4]
Nothing could be more thoroughly disgusting and uncanny than they are, and yet nothing more fascinating. [4]
Men were still monstrosities to him, still deformities, and in his sober moments he had no desire to be like them, but their strange and unsocial and uncanny construction was no longer offensive to him. [5]
Mingling with these might be heard the uncanny hooting of owls and daws which the illumination had brought out of their nests in the cornice, and which the storm was now driving in again. [10]
With them were men who played upon strange instruments which made uncanny noises of a sort to make one's flesh creep. [5]
We often succeed, it is true, in effacing the record for a longer or a shorter period, but often, again, the letters on the page shine with an uncanny light, and force the inward eye to see them and to heed them. [10]
With renewed exasperation I thought of Krebs, of his disturbing and almost uncanny faculty of following me up. [9]
Through it the hovering, protecting sense becomes instinctive, and prescience takes on uncanny certainty. [11]
At intervals he heard voices approach, pass by, and fade into silence; and as he saw nothing more of the bodies they belonged to than a sort of formless drifting blur, there was something spectral and uncanny about it all that made him shudder. [5]
With Mrs. Falchion's hand upon my arm, I felt a sense of capitulation to the music and to her, uncanny in its suddenness. [11]
The Young Doctor had acted with an almost uncanny prescience. [11]
Its pleasant suburbs gone, there was little left to admire save the wrecked graveyard with its uncanny exposures. [5]
They fell away from him as from something uncanny, and went into privacy to discuss him. [5]
At times the completeness of her understanding of him gave her an uncanny sensation; and again she failed to comprehend him at all. [9]
It got to be pitch dark, at last, and the multitude groaned with horror to feel the cold uncanny night breezes fan through the place and see the stars come out and twinkle in the sky. [5]
Then she drew back shivering, for the rattle of the heavy chain, which was drawn aside from the opening of the harbour, echoed with an uncanny sound through the silence of the night. [10]
The old man, as though moved by some uncanny instinct, had come back from One Mile Spring by a roundabout trail. [11]
It was cold and uncanny in the rapid current in the middle of the stream, and the Uhlans caught hold of one another as they fell off their horses. [2]
It was Hermon's, and the person to whom he was speaking could be no one but the uncanny spider-woman, Althea. [10]
This made him an imposing and uncanny wonder to the town. [5]
They have peopled all that region with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of mysterious and uncanny creatures. [5]
His eyes had a restlessness, anon an intense steadiness almost uncanny, and his thin, long fingers had a stealthiness of motion, a soft swiftness, which struck me strangly. [11]
Yet they have a power of engaging the attention in the rapid succession of startling and uncanny incidents and in adventures in which the horrible is sometimes dangerously near the ludicrous. [4]

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