Example sentences for: haunting

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

  • But even if the script weren't so tin-eared and the direction so clunky, The Haunting still wouldn't come within screaming distance of The Blair Witch Project . The reason is philosophical.

  • Destroyed at the end of the 14th century, its sand and brick still preserve the haunting outlines of a great city that stretched for a mile, with a Buddhist temple and headless statues at the center.

  • All that’s left now in the Old Summer Palace are some of the most haunting ruins in China, particularly in a section known as the Garden of Eternal Spring (Changchun Yuan), where European-style halls, marble fountains, mazes, and a concert stand are now a broken jumble of ornately carved columns and arches.

  • The New Yorker 's Alex Ross calls Palestrina --about the 16 th -century Italian church-music composer--"a spectacle that is magnificent on the surface and haunting at the core."

  • Since The Phantom Menace , he's looked increasingly grim--he seemed to spend most of the running time of The Haunting trying to visualize himself in another, better movie.


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