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How to use the word haunt in a Sentence?

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Nobody wants to watch a movie about their loved one being held against their will, i really wanted him to stay in jail. I wanted him to do time because I wanted him to not be able to run away from the women that he killed. Because I know that they spooked him. I know that they came back to haunt him. His death was so much easier than his victims’ (deaths).

Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Considering that a crisis on the border is still ongoing, and continues to haunt Indian Ocean and China, the silence does not bode well for Indian Ocean, it emboldens China.

Sushant Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of truckers just won't be able to operate, if you're a farmer, you may have to leave some acres fallow, or won't fertilize as much. The macroeconomists don't get this. It's going to come back and haunt us all.

Phil Verleger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Beijing needs to be very cautious about wading into a conflict between NATO and United States over the Ukraine, china's current economic ties with United States, including its energy needs, don't warrant Beijing risking further alienation and backlash from Washington and its allies. This could come back to haunt Beijing later.

Alex Capri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The reason we decided to vaccinate those children with two doses is that we were looking at health benefits to the children themselves, this was a really, really strong mental health issue in that if that child gave Covid to their parent or grandparent who lived with them who is immuno-suppressed, and they ended up with harm and even death from COVID, then it was going to haunt these youngsters for the rest of their lives.

Anthony Harnden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the past year, we have heard stories across our country of African Americans questioning the appraisal process and the values assigned to their homes, this shows how systemic racism continues to haunt neighborhoods of color.

Noe Rojas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can let children languish in povertythat's going to haunt them for the rest of their lives orwe can give them a fighting chance, i prefer the latter, but that's a value judgment.

Ritchie Torres

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

He had a great deal of shame and remorse, he is a veteran and told me the fact that he did this to another soldier troubled him. He wants the story printed to remind people that something you do in your youth could haunt you for the rest of your life.

Cindy Gaylord

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We, as restaurant operators, must do a lot more ... all businesses, in reducing waste because there is no such place as 'away', everything comes back to haunt us.

Bobsy Gaia

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Hell tell you, hell be like, Oh that small wager might come back to haunt you, kid.

Ken Jennings

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

American companies haven't quite grasped the lessons of history yet, it will come back to haunt them.

Thomas Kochan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I strongly opposed him, based on his views on executive power, which will continue to haunt our country, as well as how he behaved, including the allegations that we are hearing more about today.

Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is a big deal, it is the biggest shock to the oil markets since [ Hurricane ] Katrina. And like Hurricane Katrina it will likely haunt us for months, at least weeks.

Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's a very energetic convention with a lot of people with their own opinions, what you say to make them happy may come back to haunt you later.

Raphael Sonenshein

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This shutdown, even if it lasts a total of, say, days, two weeks or a month or whatever it lasts, the impact on employees is going to haunt them for a very, very long time. I'm talking about years.

Tony Reardon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This FBI investigation will haunt Andrew Gillum gubernatorial campaign and will be a very lethal attack.

Andrew Gillum

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Just a few months ago, the entire country was seen as dangerous and suspect. Now the President and the Secretary of State claim that North Korea is no longer North Korea and that North Korean officials can trust Kim Jong Un, north Korea hasn't changed -- the Trump administration has changed, and this is the ghost of strategies past returning to haunt current diplomatic efforts.

Abraham Denmark

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This one'll haunt me for a long time if we can't get it reversed.

John Phillips

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When I am in the United States, the Vietnam War does haunt me every day and every night but when I am in Vietnam I don’t see no flares, no helicopters no tracers no bombs, the American war has been over 50 years so I myself find peace in Vietnam.

David Clark

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The hot mic is just one more tool the media use to protect their friends and target their enemies, nBC worked with Donald Trump for 11 years. There were no news stories about Trump's off-color and crude comments. It did everything it could to protect him -- both in news and entertainment. He, and indirectly Billy Bush, became targets because he ran a political campaign wildly opposed by network reporters, producers and anchors … If you are liberal, it won't likely impact you for long. If you are to the right of the media covering the story, it will haunt you forever.

Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Obviously, not everyone who shops at Urban Outfitters is a committed leftist. Simply by offering a few pro-Trump items, even if they’re outnumbered by anti-Trump items ten-to-one, would shield Urban Outfitters from criticism and potential boycotts, political campaigns come and go, but alienating large portions of the public can haunt you for decades.

Scott Pinsker

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He's making money off the campaign, presumably, as profit for these companies that are servicing the campaign, whether it's a vineyard, you know, selling wine to the campaign, or whether it's hotels, or selling space at Mar-a-Lago, or the airline, now he may promote that as part of his business acumen: ‘Look, I'm a candidate plus I'm making money.’ But that can come back to haunt, as well; I mean, you know, people may say, ‘Wait a minute, it looks like too much self-dealing here.’.

Kenneth Gross

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When you tell your friend that you're gonna take care of him, and then to walk out of there and he's not with you, is something that's going to hurt and haunt, you remember that face that he gave you, that face that said: 'Don't let go. If you make it, make sure I make it too.'.

Demetrice Naulings

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It comes back to haunt you.

John Powell

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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