How To Use Haunt In A Sentence

A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
He is a slightly possessed, haunted, eccentric man; his enemies prefer to say ' insane '.
See it once and it will haunt your memory with the pleasant familiarity of an old friend.

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The area was a popular tourist haunt.
We meet in a tiny plush room in a posh London hotel which is the regular haunt for such interviews.
While the other threads were developed and resolved, leaving one rather exhausted and peculiarly unsatisfied, this one remained outstanding, haunting the reader's memory.
It is one of the oldest pubs in the country and a favourite haunt of the rich and famous who mingle with the locals over a pint - or a royal gin and tonic.
She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road.
So he died a bachelor and now he haunts it. Times, Sunday Times
from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration
The walk will recall the town's heroes and villains, history, hauntings and murders, ghosts and ghouls.
But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of Niagara. Legends of Vancouver
You need to have a strong constitution to visit some of the country's most haunted places. The Sun
But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it. GreenCine Daily: Miami Dispatch.
Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist. The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
The old lady is haunting her. Times, Sunday Times
They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market. Inside New York City's Fishy Black Market
Elena's back-stabbing ways may come back to haunt her on The Vampire Diaries. Which Vampire Diaries Original Is Coming Back with a Vengeance?
Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them.
DiDonato took a broader and more dramatic perspective in two Rossini numbers, Desdemona's haunting "Willow Song" from "Otello" and a dazzlingly virtuosic encore of "Tanti affetti," the final showpiece from "La Donna del Lago. SFGate: Top News Stories
The Kansas program continues to be haunted by the collective legacy of Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce and Jacque Vaughn.
A peculiarly subtle expression haunts the lower part, sensual and incredulous, like that of a man tasting good Bordeaux with half a fancy it has been somewhat too long uncorked. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
Are you brave enough to spend Halloween night in one of the most haunted places in downstate Illinois?
I hadn't even given my old home a thought during the last two months - I'd had too many things to worry about without my brother's death haunting my mind.
Obsessively monitoring lines and wrinkles, swollen ankles and grey hairs, they are haunted by feelings of self-hatred and inadequacy.
A wrongdoer is constantly haunted by the fear of discovery.
Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
As I leave the reading and venture out into clubland, the question haunts me.
It is in his practical views on tyrannicide and political murder that Sexby's real inheritance still haunts us.
It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
Mary graduates from a tense, haunted guilt about her role in the murder of Darnley to a radiant, assured queenliness in the spiritual honesty and dignity with which she faces death.
When Ann gets home, she's ashamed, haunted by her moment of kleptomania.
Strange phantoms haunt this room day and night.
But what makes the melody haunting is its unusual structure. Times, Sunday Times
This was true, but also significant, because by trotting out the figure of 20%, he created an expectation and sound byte that will come back to haunt him and the Chinese currency at the end of the summer if unattained. Diane Francis: Chinese Cheating
Merseyside, in 1958, a disaster that still haunts the argument for de-accession, the decisions then made on grounds of fashion rather than quality. Evening Standard - Home
Dole survived with a tactic that haunts him to this day: He used the abortion issue to defeat his opponent.
Those who watched the train leave were haunted for long afterwards. Times, Sunday Times
Her eyes were a dark, haunting green, and she wore thick-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses.
The haunting became so intense that in 1999 Buddhist monks were invited to the museum to offer foods to propitiate the restless souls of the victims who had been murdered there.
These things have a habit of coming back to haunt you.
The ghost of Lady Margaret is supposed to haunt this chapel.
But then we're back to the love birds cooing and chuckling and visiting haunted houses. Times, Sunday Times
The nature and behavior of these proboscideans have also haunted South African naturalist Lyall Watson, who evokes their world in Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant (W. W. Norton).
Following the interval came Schubert's haunting Trio in B flat D898.
It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly. Twilight
There are almost no reports of hauntings or malicious spirits these days.
And with the discretion of rare breeding she carries into the haunts of vice and miserable intrigue the Italian byword: _Orecchie spalancate, e bocca stretta_. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
With a pistol, two bullets and a handful of possessions, Viggo andson fightfor a new life in post-apocalyptic America, haunted by visions of his dead wife. SLACKERJACK – Ice Road Truckers
They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel. Suburbs of Our Discontent
His long search had brought him to this haunted city - where ghosts of the past were still not dormant.
The Slyme ale-house had an ill repute, and was said to be haunted moreover; none would lie there the night who had anything to lose -- 'twas the haunt of kites and 'corbie craws.' Border Ghost Stories
He is parked in an alley across from the London hotel, one of his favourite haunts. Times, Sunday Times
For example, if you use the word haunt you cannot use haunts. Stainless Steel Droppings
The result is a wilderness of ethereal beauty, teeming with wildlife that regards human beings as curious oddities, and a haunting loneliness that is almost tangible. Times, Sunday Times
No longer is it the lonely haunted place with alleys and dark doorways ready to hide the criminal and the sleuth.
Now the past no longer haunts your heart, a love relationship can really take off. The Sun
By the 1980s Yellowstone's snowmobile boosterism would come to haunt park managers.
Anne ran down the clover slope like a deer, and disappeared in the firry shadows of the Haunted Wood. Anne of Green Gables
This show conveyed the haunted profligacy of the artist and his work.
Once the fish have spawned they will gradually work their way back to old haunts but if the summer stays red hot, they stick to the weirs.
The group showed its appreciation of Mr. Haden by playing his tunes, which unrolled like scenes in a classic film: The bright and optimistic "Hello My Lovely" could have underscored a scene of boy-meets-girl; the romping calypso "Child's Play" belonged under a dance sequence; and the excruciatingly haunting ballad "First Song" clearly represented a moment of heartbreak. Getting Down to Brass Tacks
With rumors of hauntings and ghosts, Kingdom Hospital has a ghastly standing in the community.
This is a favourite haunt of buskers and artists, hanging out amid the theatres and restaurants in a manner reminiscent of Paris.
Your description reminded me a teensy bit of the Anne Perry book “Face of a Stranger,” which is of course nothing like the McGrath book in subject, but has a similar theme of the main character haunted by a past just out of his line of sight. Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room
The old lady is haunting her. Times, Sunday Times
A toad croaked in the distance breaking the eerie silence that haunted the halls of trees and earth.
But there was nae speeritooal noorishment to be gotten i 'that houff (haunt)," said Jeames Gentle. Malcolm
During the week, youngsters tried their hand at pumpkin carving and visited a haunted house grotto.
I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building that had been periodically haunted by the specter of the upper half of a roofer who had fallen from the six story roof twenty years earlier.
Wild duck and water hens also frequent this area of the river and it is pleasant to watch from the bridge and note the wildlife come back to their old haunts.
There's slim hope that in the maze of dark and disordered tuins a luxury haunting love will be discovered.
Is the idea of a tense trip homeward, haunted by some unexpiated act, alien to the Bible? The Muse in the Machine
The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
FLOATING THROUGH HER ears was the haunting quena flute of Jorge Cumbo, with the South American group Urubamba. Roadside Crosses
Helen Day is haunted by visions of herself surrounded by flames, as a dark-haired man watches her burn. Angels' Blood Countdown: Shannon K Butcher - Burning Alive ARC
Vikram Bhatt, the producer of Haunted, says the idea for his next 3D film is already brewing in his head. Tinsel Town is 'Haunted' by This Man
The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.
Some of the physical incidents in haunts, including interference with electrical equipment and movement of objects with ferrite components, may also be due to anomalous electromagnetic conditions.
The Observer is on the lookout for ghostly goings-on in local haunted houses and tales of the spine-tingling supernatural.
However, the line separating circumcision and castration is at times hard to discern in these texts because the mutilation, whether partial or complete, seems to instantiate a form of subjectivity that for all attempts at containment continues to inhere in the narratives and haunts even the most triumphant accounts of victory over Tipu in the early Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
Three bagpipers led the way, filling the air with their haunting chords as family, friends and Sailors stretched out behind them along the winding, pebble-strewn path and across emerald-colored hills.
But this awful moment, haunting in an overt way, only underscores what the rest of the film does not do - make you care a whit about what happens to Cal.
Kaffir blankets haunted the refuse-heaps, and fought with gaunt dogs for picked bones and empty meat-tins, and were found dead not unseldom, after full meals of strange and dreadful things. The Dop Doctor
The house is reputedly haunted by a ghost, after a woman preparing to elope with her lover fell from her horse on the road near the house.
While sorting through old photographs at my mother's house one Christmas, I came across a photograph that was to haunt me for years.
With elaborate staging, desert locations, and a haunting score, this film etches into memory with iconic power. John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith
However well received the plays he had written since, none had eclipsed the haunting, poetic power of his first.
Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever?
Cumin is a case in point and its haunting smokiness complements the almost gaminess of mackerel. Times, Sunday Times
It is a time which will haunt Sonia for a long time to come - the slowest ever in her career since entering senior ranks.
There’s also something naughty and juvenile about Halloween that appeals to me … the idea of being 14 or 15 and on a “date” with a boy you have a big crush on and being at a scary haunted house and that being the perfect excuse to be scared and maybe flirty … if a 14 year old even really knows what flirty is (I know I didn’t). Halloween baby! « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
The atrocities of the Second World War coupled with developments in genetics, robotics, and space exploration (just to mention a few) are reflected in nihilism and existentialism philosophies, presenting the image of a man as a fluctuant entity, surrounded by relative values, incapable of seeking ultimate truths and haunted by the disintegration of ideologies that once he has held sacred. POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
It is a charming picture, and one would like to know more about that "chaunt," that "wild melody. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
His music is a haunting mix of guitar, synthesizer, oriental gongs and bells.
But it could come back to haunt councils - sending tax bills spiralling further the following year. The Sun
But over the centuries, the fate of this now legendary vessel, the so-called Holy Grail, has come to haunt stories ranging from Arthurian legend to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Are unquiet spirits returning from the grave to haunt the living, screwing up your picnic plans?
He held them silent with ghastly stories of the "Yo-hoes" on Monomoy Beach, that mock and terrify lonely clam-diggers; of sand-walkers and dune-haunters who were never properly buried; of hidden treasure on Fire Island guarded by the spirits of Kidd's men; of ships that sailed in the fog straight over Captains Courageous
For years, I have kept this haunting expression of the need to pray close by me.
Then there are actors who are haunted by what they perceive as the trivial and inconsequential nature of their work.
Strange noises, ghostly footsteps and ice cold winds haunt staff working late into the night.
That was probably why he was often haunted by spells of melancholia and dark thoughts and often sought refuge in books.
There is a spectre haunting movieland. Times, Sunday Times
The dimensions of this problem are encapsulated in the first sentence of the book: ‘Berlin is a haunted city.’
The raw, haunting music that accompanies them is a hybrid that represents both their artistic worlds. Times, Sunday Times
The experience haunted me for years afterward .
WHAT kind of ghost haunts a chicken coop? The Sun
Others will witness acts of inhumanity that will haunt their remaining days.
The finale began on a dark stage, a haunting series of tunes by my favorite living tenor saxophonist, Igor Butman.
An electronic onslaught, with an ominous melody and haunting vocals. The Sun
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
I have many memories of Calum, but the one that lingers most hauntingly in my mind is of him sitting among my family, his dark eyes, unfathomable as they often were, fixed on somewhere high on the wall, while his fingers coaxed that plaintive music from our little squeeze-box. Every living thing
These birds from their secret haunts affright the quiet of the night.
With their first new album since 1998, we must ask: have they avoided the soul sucking crapulence that haunts so many other bands that continue on into their second decade?
It's a haunting, slightly melancholy piece that's arguably the best track on here.
Since the brother [134] of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time that grows old in itself bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation .... From Chaucer to Tennyson
That being said, I thought it was done in a beautifully horrific manner, with some shots that are hauntingly pulchritudinous. Top 10 Best Modern Horror Remakes » Scene-Stealers
I would have liked to have spent several days in Iona, prowling by myself around its haunted ruins and getting acquainted with its quaint inhabitants. The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell is another haunting book, a reading experience that can only be compared with an Everest ascent, with the thematic summit of the book occurring midway through, by which point we've leapfrogged from the the early nineteenth century to the twenty third (or thereabouts). MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
THE grotesque images of last week's riots will haunt us for many years to come. The Sun
An electronic onslaught, with an ominous melody and haunting vocals. The Sun
The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
These are the sights that haunt a team demoted to the Championship from the world's richest league. Times, Sunday Times
A ghostly lady is said to haunt the stairway looking for her children.
The duduk is a simple instrument; but deceptively so, in that it requires an embouchure and diaphragm of steel plus circular breathing to elicit its haunting, cool sound. Michal Shapiro: Grandfather, Grandson, Grandmasters (Video)
The other spectre that haunts liberal economics – other than the lingering unhappiness that its happy-clappy consumerism generates – is the broaching of planetary boundaries for survival. The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane
As a girl, she used to haunt the local theater.
As her heartbeat slows, her mind settles on the same thoughts that have haunted her for weeks: her desire to understand the order and purpose of things, especially the ambiguity of death and the mysterious abyss between matter and spirit. The Impulse of Breathing
That night the family frantically phoned friends and visited her haunts. The Sun
As in so many American plays, the past haunts the present and contains a hideous secret that is known but never acknowledged.
This last haunts only the tops of trees in high beechen woods, and makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise, now and then, at short intervals, shivering a little with its wings when it sings; and is, I make no doubt now, the _regulus non cristatus_ of Ray, which he says "_cantat voce stridula locustae_. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of Journey to the Interior of the Earth
She haunted Jackson closely before becoming a singing star.
Sounded as some far strife through the star-haunted gloam. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
I was sure that the Graymen had not built it, and was haunted by the thought that at one time, normal people had dwelt here peacefully.
The stately home on the Richmond riverside is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Laurderdale, who lived there during the 1670s.
This question continues to haunt us, and Moynihan's arguments about black culture still preoccupy and divide academics.
They learned fairly to live in the perfunctory; they remained in it as many hours of the day as might be; it took on finally the likeness of some spacious central chamber in a haunted house, a great overarched and overglazed rotunda, where gaiety might reign, but the doors of which opened into sinister circular passages. The Golden Bowl — Complete
Constantly haunted by images of hellhounds, loneliness, and an unreasonable wanderlust, Johnson lived hand to mouth, playing at plantations, house parties and street corners.
THE grotesque images of last week's riots will haunt us for many years to come. The Sun
Even holding the week at his mansion, with the stories of his dead wife haunting the place, added to the mysterious feel of the week.
(That) phone call haunts her to this day," said Cooper. CTV News RSS Feed
Malcolm will also call at a mill in Coney Lane where a ghost still haunts the building.
Duvall returns as an elderly fellow in the 2010 Sundance flick "Get Low," a haunted codger pushing forward, again, simply because he's not yet underground. Sundance Review: ‘Get Low’ Starring Bill Murray And Robert Duvall » MTV Movies Blog
Even the poorest families haunt their neighbors' houses to catch snatches of government newscasts.
The book opens with a haunting and portentous prologue that simultaneously catalyses the twin narrative strands of the novel, presages its thematic concerns and gives a first taste of the dark symbolism with which it is heavily laden.
His ghost is said to haunt some of the rooms, banging a toy drum.
As it was the late 80's, Goa was still very uncommercialised and the haunt of hippies and dodgy drug dealers, who we met on several occasions plying their trade. Army Rumour Service
Then he exorcises the evil spirit haunting them and becomes chief.
We need laments and elegies: Innocents have died and will again, and the struggle to hope is hard and haunted by loss.
The haunting atmosphere of the old wartime camp at Spring Hill near Broadway has inspired a dark tale of murder and mystery.
But then we're back to the love birds cooing and chuckling and visiting haunted houses. Times, Sunday Times
The march his haunt--Beowulf, lines 102-103 ... walked nightlong Old English gods and myths: Eotens
He was born disabled and voiceless with a gaze permanently haunted by a look of terror.
Playa des Cavallett (south of the airport in Ibiza) and Playa de las Salinas are both popular gay haunts and Playa des Cavallett is also an official naturist beach.
Before I knew it, I was haunting our best online auction site, TradeMe, every day.
Mysterious and sophisticated, this mélange of all-natural spices and herbs and woods agarwood, borneol and shiso leaf among others is haunting. Top 25 Contemporary Perfumes
She haunts the ballet
Yet he wasn't about to abandon old haunts, any more than old friends.
Phobos ( Human ): An experienced veteran, he led the invasion of the demon - haunted tunnels of Phobos.
Clare was haunted by the fear that her husband was having an affair.
The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew. The Lord of the Sea
The haunting Sounding depicting rays of sunlight through thunderous clouds is the stand-out piece of the whole exhibition.
Speaking quite personally, I'm constantly haunted by our incapacity to achieve ultimate meaning and I hate systems that, as it were, foreshorten the debate by saying ‘Either we have absolute truth or there is no truth to have’.
It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing.
It's still a haunting memory. The Sun
Golden orioles, buntings, hawks and rock doves are common on the island, as is the Scops Owl whose soft and penetrating pew-pew call drifts hauntingly through the olive groves as soon as the sun begins to set.
The most telling and haunting part of the wreck is the Royal Australian Air Force roundel that has faded with time and was torn in half during a salvage attempt.
With that said, there's really nothing bad about this affair - it's mournful, haunting, stirring, elegiac…
The first movement revolves around a haunting ostinato which forms the motto theme of the quintet (a typical Franckian device) and develops throughout the movement.
Traffic lights were also put into operation during that period and they helped to slow down the speeders that usually haunt Teeling Street.
The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew. The Lord of the Sea
And Sudan is just one of the conflicts that continue to haunt Africa.
Images of the crash still haunted his dreams years later.
He said that "he felt uncommonly well, had much less of the dyspepsy than he had experienced for years," followed his little girls to their favorite haunts, and seemed to realize the blessing of leisure. Rich Enough a tale of the times
His shade will always haunt the place. Times, Sunday Times
It is a common device in the literature and cinema of the macabre and the fantastic that an object - often a painting but sometimes a mirror, a statue or a curio - will haunt its protagonists.
This kind of costumery can be really aspirational in a quietly haunting way. Gawker
Down-sizing, delayering, outsourcing and reengineering haunt the suburbs as well as the inner cities, mocking the commitments and hollowing out the institutions which were once the lodestars of the salariat. Archive 2009-08-01
Wild fowl in great variety visit the island, and the low-lying land within the sea-wall is the favourite haunt of many sea-birds; and several varieties of plover, the redshank, greenshank, sandpiper, and snipe may be found there. Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch
One issue that could continue to haunt the government is the downgrading of cannabis to a class-C drug.
Nunnington Hall is reputed to be haunted by a presence that prevents any occupant of the Panelled Bedroom, which has an adjoining oratory, from sleeping until it has passed over the bed and out through the wall.
It must be autumn at home now – the harbour is a-dream and the old Glen hills blue with haze, and Rainbow Valley a haunt of delight with wild asters blowing all over it – our old 'farewell-summers.' Rilla of Ingleside
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
Sergey Maximishin's pictures of Russia are incredible, from the kitschy to the haunting to the just plain freaky. Boing Boing
That's right folks, I was the vilest creature that dared to haunt the social landscape: the unwed teenage welfare mom.
The story of sacrifice, of both men and beast, when combined with the desolate scenery creates a haunting atmosphere.
Scared away by the noise of crackers, street dogs return to their regular haunts after nearly three days.
Daniel Crossley as the guilt-haunted Paul, Rachel Wooding as a pigeon-toed ding-a-ling and Nina French as a chorine cracking under the strain of her fixed smile also stand out in a first-rate cast.
I have discovered it is the lack of mastery of these important subjects that tends to haunt a student throughout musical study.
Norfolk's feral birds haunt lakes and stretches of river in wooded parkland, the Broads and Breckland meres.
Many folk beliefs involve methods for keeping ghosts, or duppies, from returning to haunt living people.
Before the 19th century, Loch Lomond and its environs, the Trossachs, wasn't the tourist haunt it is today.
Whilst living at Bedford Gardens he began taking Bobby Hunt around his favourite haunts.
Another explores the death of Mozart and Van Gogh as the result of haunting by lamia.

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