- present participle of haunt.
haunting
Example Sentences
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Walking through the forest, the scale of what happened is almost haunting.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But there are also haunting clues that the catatonic wife down the hall isn’t as helpless as she looks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Yet the image of the male Viking warrior stubbornly lingers, drawing crowds while also haunting the galleries like a restless specter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
In this case, the “fragment” was “The Unanswered Question,” Ives’s haunting meditation on existence, with a questing trumpet at its center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The memory of Scythe Faraday’s unexpected intrusion into their home was still a dark specter haunting them.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
