How to Use haunting in a Sentence

haunting

1 of 2 noun

• Learn to be alone with my thoughts and the haunting screams of my friends.
  — Katie Barsotti, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• From the East to the West, celebrity hauntings were at an all-time high.
  — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2023
• Castro sees his work in part as a record of the city’s hauntings.
  — Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Regal and haunting, her head is some kind of Celtic cross.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
• Or, perhaps most haunting of all, was life on Earth in fact alone?
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• This record is an aural spell cast over the listener from the first sprite-like sounds to the last haunting note.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 2 May 2023
• In the mood for some celebrity hauntings and ghost stories this Halloween?
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
• The grey tone of the images also helps to sell the somewhat haunting and even tortured look of the lunar surface, too.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Nov. 2022
• Unbeknownst to him, the house was the site of a terrible series of murders, and the hauntings soon begin.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 24 Feb. 2023
• But, as the haunting ending of the movie makes so dreadfully clear, Oppenheimer’s story as told in this movie is not the end of the atomic era.
  — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• And even if it wasn’t drawn from life, the episode would be a haunting parable about the far-reaching implications of white supremacy.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 23 Mar. 2022
• Guilt, frustration, the haunting of meals uneaten, all of it bubbles to the surface.
  — Becky Krystal, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The title track, which Stirling wrote, for instance, has a haunting, almost Halloween-type vibe to it.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2022
• In the film, a man named Alistair Crump (Jared Leto) is behind all the hauntings and mysterious deaths.
  — Vulture, 31 July 2023
• The first teaser reveals that Season 3 is going to take a haunting, ghastly turn.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
• About 15 years ago, Liam Neeson picked up a cellphone and growled a haunting, threatening monologue that changed the course of his career.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Some of his magical-realist touches, like the haunting, give the play a fricative charge.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2023
• Year 10 is a haunting and gritty adventure that captivates its audience and keeps them on the edge of their seat.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
• Since 1607, a number of inns have been located on this very site, but a handful of events may be the reason for its continued hauntings.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Conjuring What’s a horror movie oeuvre without a film based on a real-life haunting?
  — Samantha Sasso, Vulture, 9 June 2023
• The problem was that the haunting was to happen in a bookstore in Minneapolis in real time.
  — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2021
• In the movie’s haunting and affecting closing reels, the pessimism of its early sections gives way to a series of small miracles, whether on or off the screen.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2023
• Here's where to go for a royal — or haunting — experience.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• But in its wish-fulfillment approach to a very real tragedy, the haunting here is more fleeting and less marrow-deep than Flanagan’s best work.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
• From that point onward, Monroe is played by Ana de Armas, in the kind of haunting and transformative role that should garner awards buzz.
  — Douglas Greenwood, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2022
• More haunting still, though not surprising given the content of the interview: Reimer died by suicide in 2004.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• Ed and Lorraine are called to investigate a haunting, leaving their daughter, Judy, at home with her babysitter, Mary Ellen.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• Sunday evenings are black holes from which no hope escapes; a time of rumination on the failures of the past seven days, and pre-emptive haunting by fiascos to come.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Danny Robbins' script wants to both probe the very nature of haunting, and the cultural value of ghosts, while also delivering up some genuine scares in the process.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• Hazy, ambiguous, and yet utterly gripping, his haunting sounds don’t just convey a sense of space, but somehow foster contemplation and transformation.
  — Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023

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haunting

2 of 2 adjective

• The effect on Lady Bird — and the rest of the nation — was haunting.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
• There’s something so haunting, with the lights fading and the world cast in this slate blue tone.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 May 2023
• But the film has a haunted and haunting dimension linked to the music and the mood.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• The themes outlined in the series are immense and haunting.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
• Some of the most haunting videos came from SkyCop cameras.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• The message of the film remains as urgent as ever, and that’s a bit haunting.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Paul Leonard-Morgan’s score is haunting and foreboding, making the hairs on the back of our neck prickle.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Though brief, the solo, as performed by the ever-compelling Brooks, is both haunting and hopeful.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• And, just as haunting, just as unanswerable, why did her career stall?
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• On this day, at this church just outside of the Ukrainian capital, their sorrow seemed just as deep and haunting.
  — Matt Surman Anushka Patil Juston Jones Julie Ho Julie Ho Julie Ho Monika Pronczuk Emile Ducke Andrea Kannapell The New York Times Monika Pronczuk Anushka Patil Farnaz Fassihi Andrea Kannapell Carlotta Gall Cassandra Vinograd Cassandra Vinograd Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Maya King Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Michael D. Shear Cassandra Vinograd Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farna, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Instead, the rest of the planet looks decidedly gloomy and haunting.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 30 June 2023
• Joe ruins many lives in season 4, but one of his most haunting victims is Nadia.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
• Schechter said hearing Gein’s voice today was haunting.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• That footage appears in the ghostly underwater scenes that bookend the movie, making the montages all the more haunting.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• Her haunting, seductive voice and complex lyrics keep him sane.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• When a new character dies each week, the loss doesn’t register in a way that viewers can mourn; there is no haunting effect.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• The book’s title poem, among its most haunting, describes a man dying of AIDS, soaking his bedsheets as life seeps out of him.
  — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Fanning had full access to thousands of text messages between Carter and Roy and says that reading them was very haunting.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• This insistence on a more sculpted and slim version of ourselves is haunting.
  — Melania Luisa Marte, refinery29.com, 14 June 2023
• The photos are beautiful, haunting, marred only by streaks of moisture that color the frames, some more than others.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• For some, 80 degrees in February was haunting, a marker of the dangerous shifts in our climate.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• In the belly of the theater, the haunting, ethereal melodies provided a space to reflect on what needs to happen moving forward.
  — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
• An abstracted face—a little goofy, but also haunting—loomed in front of an orange background.
  — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
• The resulting piece is haunting; the delicate black and white fish deformed with jarring splotches of dangling brown guts.
  — Kaila Yu, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• The effect is both haunting and beautiful, as this six-minute documentary shows.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2021
• Sorry, no — the Doom Buggy will deposit you safely onto the sidewalk after your visit to the happy haunting grounds.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Like so much of the play, the energy of the place is haunting and familiar, even while purposefully nonspecific.
  — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• Which leads back to the same haunting question: Why? People who study such violence are also perplexed by the sustained pace of the brutality.
  — Stefanie Dazio and Larry Fenn, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• In retrospect, the timing of Jimmy’s fable feels haunting.
  — Zachary Siegel, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• The result is something haunting yet alluring, with the lyrics matching the intensity of the enchanting sound.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024