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How to use uncanny in a sentence

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Davis never failed to draw irony from his uncanny ability to find the right things at the right time.
To hear his admirers tell it, he single-handedly rescued the network in the 1980s with his uncanny gift for finding quality shows.
Her skin had an uncanny translucence relieved by large dark blotches where nurses had tried to find a vein and she had bled under the surface.
When we got to the cave mouth, I got this uncanny feeling like I'd been there before.
I've seen this person around quite a lot, and seeing them recently, and then the show, was just uncanny!
That this tropical drupe can somehow be made to taste like smoky bacon without the greasy mess is uncanny.
However, I have noticed an uncanny ability to give good luck to those who are gambling.
Humankind possesses this uncanny ability to survive in the face of adversity!
Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself.
Paul had this uncanny ability of making me want to hit him and laugh at the same time.
Eriksson, charming, smooth and cerebral, has the uncanny ability to deflect most criticism.
Some people seem to have an uncanny ability to grow personally regardless of their apparent setting.
The series demonstrated once again that Ferguson has an uncanny knack for turning controversy into lucre.
Right now, if he has, I have an uncanny understanding of why he kisses the ground.
That impresses me but not as much as his uncanny expertise on the topic of game and quiz shows.
Google's success stems from its uncanny ability to sort useful web pages from dross.
I do rely on him because his technical expertise is superb and his ability to predict the future has been uncanny.
Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
She speaks with uncanny timing in the most doggone delicious accent, and sings with irresistible sorcery.
But there is a second condition necessary for the production of the uncanny in fiction, a condition less psychological than narratological.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Finally, in folk-lore the snail is an uncanny or demoniac being, because it has horns.
He was studying the ground plan of the absorber, when an uncanny sense of being watched made him look over his shoulder.
It seemed an uncanny, horseless carriage, built to carry four people and making a good deal of fuss about it.
This jettisoning of his property with his own hand seemed uncanny to Soames.
Scotland is the home of weird, uncanny creatures, who take lovely shapes for the bedevilment of poor weak souls.
The most uncanny thing about the kirk was the precentor's box beneath the pulpit.
The linotype and monotype machines, uncanny in their operations, have also come into common practice.
Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.
Peering at you from the top of a dark pine tree with its staring yellow eye, the grackle is certainly uncanny.
Never in all my life have I seen such wondrous swordsmanship and such uncanny agility as that ancient bag of bones displayed.
This was uncanny, but it was not so terrible as the faceless form.
No sign of life appeared about the cave, yet Momaya experienced that uncanny sensation as of unseen eyes regarding her malevolently.
Whether awake or asleep, the bird has an uncanny, half-human look.
The people about me are like some uncanny, half-human beings.
He had never caught even a glimpse of the boy and had heard a dozen exaggerated stories about his uncanny looks and ways and his insane tempers.
With their uncanny marksmanship they raked the on-coming fleet with volley after volley.
For my part, grim and uncanny as he looked, I was glad to see him.
This knowledge, with the dream, was to him an uncanny thing.
The uncanny creatures flew in and out among the trees and tents, now swooping low near the Indians or the travelers.
They have peopled all that region with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of mysterious and uncanny creatures.
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