haunt
Example Sentences
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Arco Renz’s choreography of the students as they haunt the present day makes their distress visible through physical contortions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Motsinger, now 84, used to work as a waitress at a restaurant called the Trident in Sausalito, near San Francisco, that was a haunt for celebrities, including Cosby.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Or is it more like Freddy Krueger, coming back to haunt the gullible?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
These comments will probably come back to haunt her in the election campaign.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026
“Maybe I’ll come back and haunt your D-twenties. Those dice are too unlucky for you.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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Vocabulary lists containing haunt
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