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How to use haunting in a sentence

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Saluting the coffin after the service as pipers skirled a haunting lament, he looked devastated.
All this is linked by a haunting soundscape of music and song delivered by dishevelled musicians clad in dressing gowns.
That day has too many haunting memories and opens up old wounds that have yet to be healed.
The haunting, original music washes unobtrusively over the scenes, giving them a sense of connection.
Or will the parting strains of Robbie Burns' haunting refrain convince her to come back again soon?
We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight.
This is a haunting and powerful piece, all the more effective for its relative brevity.
The work is an icy bluish gray, brimming over with a quiet urgency and haunting luminosity.
These final scenes are shot in slow motion, framed by a haunting Persian musical soundtrack.
And it gave Ice Cube a haunting refrain in one of his angriest and best tracks.
The spectre of fascism is not haunting Europe, reports Dominic Standish from Italy.
The elegance, the sorrow, the cadences of the language there reminds one of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with its haunting refrains.
This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
The colors and moods combine with the actors' performances and haunting musical cues to create a slightly surreal atmosphere.
It's also notable that Wright leaves a far more vivid and haunting image in your mind.
The pair soon wove their magic around Thom Yorke's haunting vocals and were promoted to the ranks of producers.
The story of sacrifice, of both men and beast, when combined with the desolate scenery creates a haunting atmosphere.
He was about to reach shore, but then the haunting smell reached his nostrils again.
Most of the songs feature solemn, at times almost whispered, vocals, with several songs employing haunting, catchy hooks.
They also played an excerpt from his Mass in C minor, with its haunting Kyrie.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There is a pedler haunting the sheep-shearing festivals of the neighborhood.
She who had been as a haunting discomfort to me, had grown to be my one consolation.
The classic case of haunting in England is, perhaps, that of Willingdon Mill.
A brief, haunting phrase of Mr. Noguchi has far more charm than an imitation of his American master's torrential manner.
Herbert Hoover's haunting trouble all through his college course was that unpassed entrance requirement in English composition.
She had the haunting melancholy of Russia in her face, but her voice was as the voice of Cockaigne.
The name would have a parallel in the Modern English grindle, grundel, German grundel, a fish haunting the bottom of the water.
Lest this should become monotonous a musician played a melody in the minor mode and not without a strange haunting charm.
The closing measures, una corda and dolcissimo, afford a reminiscence of the haunting appeal of the chief melody.
They include the love song Mor o Gariad, the protest song Tryweryn and the haunting melody Ysbryd Solfa.
There was a haunting familiarity about the impossibly beautiful features.
Such thoughts would keep haunting Jurgis, filling him with all sorts of strange and almost painful excitements.
Or I might compare them to cherubs, haunting that holy place.
Tai's details provide haunting images as she takes her grandfather's story and retells it through the eyes of his daughter.
There is a haunting cold brightness about the schlemihl etchings.
Now scoot, quick, for it won't do for them to see you haunting round.
It came back vividly to my mind a few days ago, and has remained haunting me like an annoying tune that one cannot get rid of.
The black-tie event will include a champagne reception, three-course dinner and haunting music from a piper, buglers and drummers.
One might laugh at the old conspirator's haunting thought of the police.
Never had he been so taunted by a sense of failure, so torn by the haunting knowledge that he must soon leave his family.
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