Example sentences for: haunting

How can you use “haunting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But in more formal standard English inanimate objects are now referred to by the neuter pronoun it , though in other Indo-European languages that I know grammatical gender lingers as a sort of ghost of animistic gender haunting all nouns.

  • Less conventionally ambitious, and possibly more affecting because of it, is Michael Lesy's Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century , a collection of turn-of-the-century photographic postcards that are both graphically gorgeous and spiritually haunting.

  • Like the Holocaust for the Jews or slavery for African-Americans, the potato famine is the omnipresent, haunting presence in Irish history.

  • For men's hair, the cosmic risk is the possible baldness haunting them all, and that only adds to the high tension attending male choices.

  • L Is for Legacy: Gwen Ifill double dribbled her observation that the L word currently haunting Clinton is "legacy," not liberalism ( Washington Week in Review and Meet the Press ).


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