haunting

Example Sentences

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And hitting all his elements perfectly to Chopin's haunting, melancholic "Nocturne No. 20" earned the young skater his season's best score of 85.65 points and a place in Friday's free skating final.

From Barron's

Familial and historical horrors are compressed in this strange, simultaneous haunting.

From The Wall Street Journal

Skating to Laufey’s “Promise,” a haunting piano ballad, Liu glided through a flawless short program that she said nearly moved her to tears.

From Los Angeles Times

The haunting notes didn’t resemble an organ, a piano, a fiddle, or any instrument of this world.

From Literature

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