Sentence examples for it seemed uncanny from inspiring English sources

It seemed uncanny that a grown-up woman could want and expect an event, and the event refuse her.

It seemed uncanny to think of putting my baby daughter in a gas-proof tent".

"Because it's in a city, it seems uncanny," said one.

It seems uncanny to think now that Anuvahood was released only months before the riots but he refuses to believe the disorder was political.

Given the financial crisis and global slump that has accompanied his first term, it seems uncanny now that Mr Bernanke should have written his doctoral thesis on the Great Depression, and made that turbulent period his academic specialty for decades thereafter.

She seemed uncanny and fateful.

The resemblance seemed uncanny, a marvel.

There were maneuvers that seemed uncanny and almost balletic in movement and balance.

As a promotion, the idea was genius: the parallel between the fictional Carl Fredrickson and Macefield seemed uncanny.

Their tranquillity seemed uncanny after the weather outside: their absorbed breathing, the stroke of their marks on big sheets of blue paper, the chink of their brushes in jam jars of clouding water.

But among those gathered on 9 September, the eve of the Frankfurt motor show, at an off-site presentation, the Audi Nanuk prompted a collective "Haven't we seen this before?" The similarities in profiles between the Parcour Concept – designed by the Volkswagen Group-owned Italdesign Giugiaro and presented in March 2013 at the Geneva motor show – and the Nanuk seemed uncanny, and rightly so.