haunt
Example Sentences
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These comments will probably come back to haunt her in the election campaign.
From MarketWatch
But here’s the thing: that crusty, once-opened jar of kale pesto quietly haunting your condiment shelf?
From Salon
Yet the most haunting contested claim of Moy’s life did not pertain to music.
Because the drills struck so close to the fear that haunted each of our guests —never spoken, always present—we tried to keep these times from becoming altogether serious.
From Literature
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This would quiet her, but then she’d come back to haunt us.
From Literature
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