HAUNTED in a Sentence

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1. A thousand Miss Havishams haunted me.
2. The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
3. He haunted the British Museum when living in London.
4. She looked so haunted, I almost didn't recognize her.
5. A wrongdoer is constantly haunted by the fear of discovery.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAUNTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
haunted
 a.  showing emotional affliction or disquiet; frequently visited by a ghost
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
2  I now made arrangements for my journey, but one feeling haunted me which filled me with fear and agitation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  His voice was solemn as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  Arthur Dimmesdale, like many other personages of special sanctity, in all ages of the Christian world, was haunted either by Satan himself or Satan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
9  It may be that his pathway through life was haunted thus by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
10  But there lay the embroidered letter, glittering like a lost jewel, which some ill-fated wanderer might pick up, and thenceforth be haunted by strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings of the heart, and unaccountable misfortune.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
11  I was usually at Hammersmith about half the week, and when I was at Hammersmith I haunted Richmond, whereof separately by and by.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
12  The figure of my sister in her chair by the kitchen fire, haunted me night and day.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
13  If that staid old house near the Green at Richmond should ever come to be haunted when I am dead, it will be haunted, surely, by my ghost.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
14  A thousand Miss Havishams haunted me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
15  Almost the first remarkable thing I observed in Miss Murdstone was, her being constantly haunted by a suspicion that the servants had a man secreted somewhere on the premises.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  He haunted the British Museum when living in London.
2  The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
3  A wrongdoer is constantly haunted by the fear of discovery.
4  The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.
5  She looked so haunted, I almost didn't recognize her.
6  You start--did you hear a noise? I daresay it is only a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom: it was a barn before I had it repaired and altered, and they are generally haunted by rats.
7  I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
8  I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.
9  Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified newlywed in Hitchcock's “Suspicion,” died.
10  Though he pretended their encounter was fortuitous, he'd actually been hanging around her usual haunts for the past two weeks, hoping she'd turn up.
11  It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island, far from the haunts of men, and they said they never would return to civilization.
12  For the specter of world revolution still haunts world capitalism, and the Yankee bomb is its ultimate defense.
13  Jason will once again haunt the cursed campgrounds of Crystal Lake, but this time, hockey-masked Jason is the real killer.
14  Hubby and I, now do our Christmas shopping on the square in Oxford and my favorite haunt is SB!
15  His heroic tug at a flag-decked mast will come back to haunt him in unexpected ways later in the story.