haunting

Example Sentences

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It was haunting to see them for the first time, stark evidence of the forests in which they’d once stood, and the villages they had shaded.

From Literature

Faith and modesty were qualities in all Heynis’s performances, delivered in a plaintive and haunting tone that is not quite like any other.

From The Wall Street Journal

The sound from its strings, sweet and haunting and melodic, touches my soul.

From Literature

The river, at times hauntingly beautiful and others murky and unknowable, offers a mirror to Daniel's torment, and to the increasingly fragile hope of his wife, Agnieszka, that Chris will one day come home.

From Barron's

With only limited time for each storyline, “Young Mothers” surveys a cross-section of ills haunting these mothers.

From Los Angeles Times