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.

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

  • The area around the south end of Columbus Avenue was once known as the Barbary Coast, a seedy and boisterous waterfront district, with sailors on shore leave haunting the bars and brothels, while their captains shanghaied drunken civilians to make up lost crew.

  • 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.

  • Fouad Ajami helps explain this riddle--and many others--in his new book, The Dream Palace of the Arabs . Ajami, a Lebanese Shiite who now heads Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University, offers a haunting portrait of a generation of Arab intellectuals forced to come to terms with the West.


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