HAUNTING in a Sentence

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129 example sentences for HAUNTING, such as:

1. Where the gull haunts and the heron stands.
2. The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
3. Her novel is shot through with a haunting lyricism.
4. He haunted the British Museum when living in London.
5. She looked so haunted, I almost didn't recognize her.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAUNTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
haunting
 a.  continually recurring to the mind; unforgettable;
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  Not that its arrival brought me either; for, then I was worse than ever, and began haunting the coach-office in Wood Street, Cheapside, before the coach had left the Blue Boar in our town.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXII
2  Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
3  He had forgotten all the agonies and the ecstasies he had lived through with that picture when for several months it had been the one thought haunting him day and night.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 12
4  Moreover, there was a haunting look of despair about her that went to his heart and made him more gentle with her than he had ever been with any person in all the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Ashley looked at Will quickly and then looked away, saying nothing but wondering if Will had the same awful suspicion which was haunting him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  She was alone in this house, this strange still house, among the shadows of dead thoughts and haunting repressions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  It is as if some haunting presence were removed from me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  After this Amy subsided, till a mania for sketching from nature set her to haunting river, field, and wood, for picturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
10  Only on one point, were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
11  It came back vividly to my mind a few days ago, and has remained haunting me like an annoying tune that one cannot get rid of.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
12  "Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
13  Where the gull haunts and the heron stands.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
14  I won't shed blood; it's always found out, and haunts a man besides.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  Sometimes I wonder if she has a guilty memory which haunts her, and sometimes I suspect Barrymore of being a domestic tyrant.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  There's slim hope that in the maze of dark and disordered tuins a luxury haunting love will be discovered.
2  The film's haunting musical theme stayed in my head for days.
3  Her novel is shot through with a haunting lyricism.
4  When I think about Franco's best films a few words replay in my head such as haunting, beautiful and surreal.
5  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.
6  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.
7  For the specter of world revolution still haunts world capitalism, and the Yankee bomb is its ultimate defense.
8  He haunted the British Museum when living in London.
9  The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
10  A wrongdoer is constantly haunted by the fear of discovery.
11  The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.
12  She looked so haunted, I almost didn't recognize her.
13  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.
14  I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
15  I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.