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UK
/hˈɔːntɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈhɔntɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɔntɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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continually recurring to the mind
the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty
haunting memories -
having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect
from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration
How To Use haunting In A Sentence
- While the other threads were developed and resolved, leaving one rather exhausted and peculiarly unsatisfied, this one remained outstanding, haunting the reader's memory.
- She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road.
- 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
- 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.
- The old lady is haunting her. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
- 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.
- But what makes the melody haunting is its unusual structure. Times, Sunday Times