Sentence examples for uncanny from inspiring English sources

Then, with an uncanny echo of the 1979 FA Cup final, when Manchester United had recovered in similar fashion to draw level with Arsenal at 2-2, the coolest head on the field swung the match back on to its original course.

When it works, though, look ahead has an uncanny effect, allowing cubers to link moves so seamlessly that their reflexes seem superhuman.

Rather, the sense of the uncanny you meet during a first trip to Algiers is classically Freudian: it is the dream-like sense that, without knowing it, you have already been here before.

But we can all recognise the uncanny quality of his dream: that chilling, portentous atmosphere.

Encounters with the uncanny in Blackwood's work are often signalled by upwards movement.

The English riots were described as a tidal wave of copycat disorder that swept across towns and cities with uncanny repetition.

"It's a really unnerving, uncanny experience – almost as if the whole place has been drained of emotion," he says.

Ghosts can be site-specific: any given place can harbour multiple rumours and tales of sightings, possessions or the uncanny feeling of being "not alone".