How to Use uncanny in a Sentence

uncanny

adjective
  • She has an uncanny sense of direction.
  • She had an uncanny resemblance to someone I had seen before.
  • The youngest among them seemed to have the uncanny ability to float above the stress and anguish of the place.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2019
  • That sense of the uncanny is, to me, at the heart of most good mysteries.
    — Dwyer Murphy june 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
  • But Nemo isn’t creepy, Pikachu doesn’t give you the willies, and Big Bird is nowhere near the precipice of the uncanny valley.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And there was this uncanny strangeness through the whole film.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The 6-foot-6 wing does it with a unique style and uncanny body control.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The Crown, who embodied the princess with an uncanny grace.
    — Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Add a mustache to your Elf on the Shelf and the resemblance to Queen's lead singer is uncanny.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The folding chair has the uncanny ability to render the crowd in any room a group of equals.
    — Tyler Watamanuk, Curbed, 3 May 2018
  • Stu doesn’t know how to express his need for love, yet his grudge against the world is uncanny.
    — Armond White, National Review, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, some of the parallels between the bomb and our new AI brains are uncanny.
    — Kc Cole, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • Has an uncanny sense of where all his teammates are on the ice and how to get them the puck in dangerous spots.
    — Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Both of them wrote novels with uncanny, weird stuff in them.
    — Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2022
  • That being said, some of her hunches about his moves around the state are uncanny.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanities, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Florals aren’t just for spring, but the season has the uncanny ability to draw us to them.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But James is nothing if not resilient, and his instincts, on and off the court, tend to be uncanny.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • He is well known for his free spirit and uncanny sense of humor.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 May 2018
  • There’s just something uncanny about the way the two of us work together.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There is no uncanny valley, just a bored-looking avatar who’s about to fire you.
    — John Brandon, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Grande has been known to do an uncanny impression of the Burlesque icon.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2021
  • Anyone who was here in the spring of 2020 will remember the empty streets, the uncanny New York of lockdown.
    — Curbed, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Still, phrased the right way, the thought has an insistent, uncanny magnetism.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The lyrics, too, convey an uncanny perspective on the world.
    — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
  • This gave his Black figure an uncanny depth and richness of tone.
    — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • But the work is really all about the sky and its uncanny connection with the earth below.
    — Washington Post, 29 June 2022
  • While he is not Dua in disguise or vice versa, the result of the video is pretty uncanny.
    — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The accuracy is uncanny, from the delivery to the beauty details — the makeup, the hair, and even the nails.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 31 Oct. 2023
  • People talk about uncanny valley in terms of the look of these robots – there’s kind of a weird uncanny valley thing going on as well with AI artwork.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 26 June 2025
  • The identity of Jake's owner remains as mysterious as the robot's uncanny ability to flatter strangers.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

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