haunted

Example Sentences

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If you were told the building was haunted, you might attribute that agitation to something supernatural.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

While Japan was long haunted by deflation, it has more recently faced a surge in living costs.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

The writer left his native Ireland when he was a young man, but the nation’s struggle for independence haunted the fiction he wrote in exile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

I am haunted by the questions I should have asked and the clues that I missed.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

I nodded, and we both began to wade through the waist-high shallows, fleeing the desperate haunted ships behind us.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia