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How to use haunt in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Haunt means to inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts). Example: “A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.”

Examples of haunt by meaning

verbTo inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

  • A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.

verbTo make uneasy, restless.

  • The memory of his past failures haunted him.
  • The murder of Déagol haunted Gollum, and he had made up a defence.1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

verbTo stalk; to follow.

  • The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.

nounA place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.

  • The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.
  • I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.
  • Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.1984 October 8, Timothy Loughran, Natalie Angier, “Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming”, in Time

More sentences with haunt

  • A poltergeist haunts the house by moving objects around, making chain-rattling noises and throwing things.From the entry poltergeist
  • Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.From the entry ghost
  • The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.From the entry demon
  • According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.From the entry haunted
  • The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.From the entry ghostly
  • The old mansion was reputedly haunted, but few were willing to go and investigate.From the entry reputedly
  • Lisette can't wait to create a haunted house on Halloween night.From the entry haunted house
  • Unemboldened by alcohol, we were less willing than before to visit the haunted house.From the entry unemboldened
  • Dreams about past-life experiences have haunted me for most of my life.From the entry past-life
  • As soon as he entered the haunted house, he turtled down into his jacket.From the entry turtle down
  • The house is haunted by supernatural forces.From the entry supernatural
  • The chapel is haunted by a demonic poltergeist.From the entry poltergeist
  • The attic is said to be haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.From the entry apparition
  • The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.From the entry haunted
  • A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.From the entry specter
  • Too long have I been haunted by that shade.From the entry shade
  • The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.From the entry spook
  • They hired a specialist to exorcise the haunted object.From the entry exorcise
  • Staying in the haunted house gave me the willies.From the entry willies
  • His unsavory reputation as a mobster came back to haunt him when he ran for mayor of New York.From the entry unsavory
  • A wandering spirit haunts the island.From the entry spirit
  • The petty misdeeds of his youth came back to haunt him when he ran for political office and his character was smeared.From the entry misdeed
  • The haunted house horrified me, as I passed from one room to the next feeling more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.From the entry horrify
  • In the sentence "That house seems haunted!", 'that house' is the subject and 'haunted' is the subject complement (in this case an adjective).From the entry subject complement
  • They said the house was haunted.From the entry they say
  • Lynchian worlds are enchanted (and haunted) worlds, permeable and multi-layered, filled with the unknown and the spiritual.2025 April 10, Chris Thiessen, “Embracing mystery with David Lynch”, in The Christian Century. From the entry Lynchian
  • There would always be legends about how their ghosts would haunt the mines.2025 October 31, Wendigoon, “Journal of a Coal Miner’s Daughter”, in CreepCast. From the entry coal country
  • Satori is a ghost that can read people's thoughts and haunts the mountains.2023, Masami Kinoshita, “Super Scary Yokai”, in The Japanese Yokai Handbook: A Guide to the Spookiest Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Evil…. From the entry satori
  • This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot…. From the entry nope
  • Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down.2011, Anneleen Masschelein, The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth-Century Theory, page 2. From the entry uncanny
  • I will politically haunt you for the biggest fumble in the history of San Francisco politics.2011 January 4, Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting. From the entry on like Donkey Kong
  • Maria was forever to begive her begivings to the loathsome imposter who’s waddling skulk had haunted her.2010, Chris Worth, Captain Jeans and the Quest for Keith, storywrite.com. From the entry begiving
  • Just as Scottie has a haunted quality, Kaufman's Joel Barish is bedogged by the past as well.2010, Doreen Alexander Child, Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind. From the entry bedog

Meaning of haunt

  1. verb To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
  2. verb To make uneasy, restless.
  3. verb To stalk; to follow.

Full definition of haunt

Questions about haunt in a sentence

How do you use haunt in a sentence?
Haunt is used as a verb and noun. For example: “A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.”
What is a short sentence with haunt?
“A wandering spirit haunts the island.”
What does haunt mean?
Haunt means to inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haunt (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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