haunting

Example Sentences

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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

The attraction is in the haunting texture of the picture, its delicate, breathy wonder.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Your steps in the night, I hear them go," sings the artist known as Jacub in a haunting voice.

From BBC