haunter

Example Sentences

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But if the genre trappings seem familiar, it’s the prowling, ghostlike vantage of the camera that makes all the difference: Soderbergh has elected to tell this haunted-house story entirely from the perspective of the haunter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024

What the immigrant, the ghost, the spy and the war have in common is that they are all gothic subjects, both haunted and haunter, notoriously difficult to contain.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2021

Perhaps—for it happens to some of us—you may have seen this haunter, in dreams of the night, even during childhood.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019

Feckless Tom Bertram is a haunter of seaside resorts.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he’d once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green