haunting
Example Sentences
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Familial and historical horrors are compressed in this strange, simultaneous haunting.
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
Faith and modesty were qualities in all Heynis’s performances, delivered in a plaintive and haunting tone that is not quite like any other.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
