haunt

Example Sentences

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These comments will probably come back to haunt her in the election campaign.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Garbage-choked streets, overloaded landfills and the fear of trash avalanches haunt greater Jakarta, as the world's most populous metropolis grapples with a waste crisis.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

These days, he can walk to coffee shops and McDonalds from the swanky, $500-a-night hotel he usually stays at, Cayena, in Caracas’ La Castellana neighborhood, a popular haunt for businessmen and diplomats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

And that risk to the outlook continues to haunt some rate-setters.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Our situation, I find, is thus: Williamsburg—its Palace and its House of Burgesses—lies utterly abandoned by all royal authority, and is now the haunt of rebels.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson