Example Sentences

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Special teams have haunted McVay for a couple of years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

Richard Strauss’s criteria for the ideal interpreter of his opera “Salome” have haunted the piece for the better part of a century: a “16-year-old princess with the voice of Isolde.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

I think they must have haunted him—otherwise, why did he try so hard to ignore them, to bury his participation in the liberation of Ahlem as a footnote for decades?

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2023

This next game against the Rams in Los Angeles — a team and a place that have haunted the Seahawks — is on paper their easiest matchup over this stretch.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2023

And this answer must have haunted Croesus dismally as his luck disappeared, and his wealth and his kingdom.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck