Sentence examples for haunted from inspiring English sources

The word 'haunted' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a place, person, or object that is believed to be visited or inhabited by ghosts or other supernatural forces. For example: "The old castle had a reputation for being haunted by the ghosts of former occupants."

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haunted

verb

Past of haunt

  • According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.

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Much loved yet little read, for almost a century this strange, earnest and inconsolable novel has haunted the fringes of fiction.

The ancient race of vinyl enthusiasts who had once haunted record stores and swap meets was dying out, superseded by a mutant breed of torrent obsessives.

As a result of the vengeance the LRA inflicted upon them, Acholiland is as haunted a place as any in the world.

This is a blasted, haunted landscape, populated by demonic child soldiers and a shadowy guerrilla army that slaughters in the bush or under the cover of night.

Around the random murders, the film hones in on Berlin's melancholy, a landscape of puddles and prostitutes, a silent city – the hush broken by bells or shrieks, the tap-tap of a tool being sharpened, and haunted by the killer's eerie whistling of Grieg's "In the Hall of The Mountain King".

A Norwegian study, however, believes vampires are real and that "the Balkan region has been especially haunted".

This problem has always haunted cartographers and the shapes of world maps have typically been hugely diverse, ranging from hearts......to half-circles......to squashed turnips.

As for the national picture, the ghost of Lowry has haunted Fine Gael this week.

I sat back in my seat, amazed and haunted by this extraordinary scholar, out there in the desert, gathering and patterning a work of words that might keep us from slipping off into abstract space.

The Labour tribe – and the polling fraternity – are haunted by the experience of 1992, when the 10pm poll prepared the nation for Prime Minister Neil Kinnock.

Although he's always been haunted with the sights and sounds of his crime, especially at its anniversary, Ben never suffered nightmares until now.

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