(v. t.) To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
(v. t.) To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.
(v. t.) To practice; to devote one's self to.
(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate.
(v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting.
(n.) A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
(n.) The habit of resorting to a place.
(n.) Practice; skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) My scepticism has not vanished overnight and I cannot help but still be haunted by certain fears.
(2) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(3) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(4) George Osborne may well end up in the unhappy position of trying to convince the public, in a haunting echo of the 2010 campaign, that he is still the man to bring the nation's finances back into balance by the end of the next parliament.
(5) No.” Labour is similarly haunted by its own three-time election winner.
(6) The CCTV images released by police are haunting as we watch an individual who appears calm and focused throughout.
(7) Woods certainly appears to have exorcised the demons that have haunted him in recent years, after his world collapsed in spectacular circumstances four years ago.
(8) The Immediate Family series is complemented by haunting studies of the grown-up faces of her children, Emmet, Jessie and Virginia, all now in their 20s.
(9) "Strange", however, evokes a haunting sense of something out of joint.
(10) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
(11) Even as Kasab and Khan were attacking the CST station, another pair of gunmen hit the the Leopold Café, a popular haunt for backpackers.
(12) Imran Khan, the cricketer turned politician, hosted the event, where Ridley, who also now does human rights work, said: "I call her the 'grey lady' because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her."
(13) Today boys and girls regularly walk the corridors and yards of the museum, brought by parents and teachers to learn about South Africa's haunted past.
(14) His and Osborne's post-election "softening up" is returning to haunt them.
(15) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(16) The good news is, bad movies get forgotten in a day; whereas bad books, if you happen to have written one or two, have a way of coming back to haunt you long after you thought you’d forgotten them; not least because there is always some smart new critic out there who insists that your worst work is your best.
(17) When I look at photographs that try to move the world to compassionate action I am haunted by Jurgen Stroop .
(18) It positioned Kelela as a significant new vocalist, her phrasing indebted to pop but somehow elegantly haunting.
(19) Ghosts of crashes past still haunt this consumer Christmas Read more However, earnings growth has weakened.
(20) That year, he saw King Vidor's First World War spectacular The Big Parade in the West End, a regular haunt for the teenager.
Inhabit
Definition:
(v. t.) To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.
(v. i.) To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(2) The highest rates were observed where the inhabitants' activities were related to the sea.
(3) Staphylococci were the predominant inhabitants of normal skin, whereas micrococci were found only occasionally in this environment.
(4) When matched on number of inhabitants per birthplace, no significant differences were found.
(5) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(8) All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they inhabit as well.
(9) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
(10) Today no one can doubt that Ukraine is inhabited by European citizens, just like those in England, Germany or Poland.
(11) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
(12) During the MONICA project, the survey of cardiovascular risk factor prevalence enabled us to measure the thickness of four skinfolds (biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac) in 263 inhabitants of Lausanne (125 men, 138 women).
(13) The POL-MONICA Project screened in 1984 1309 men and 1337 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of Warsaw (the Warsaw centre) and 1250 men and 1472 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of the Tarnobrzeg province (the Cracow centre).
(14) Inhabitants are excluded from other social housing despite many having lived in Italy for generations; a fact the tribunal in Rome cited as evidence of discrimination on ethnic grounds.
(15) During the last 3 years the number of prisoners in Finland, has risen, being for the moment 105 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in Europe.
(16) A tenacious Anabaena epiphyte was also discovered inhabiting the surfaces of root nodules.
(17) There are presently five doctors for a 130,000 inhabitants population, collaborating in the setting up of basic health services.
(18) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
(19) In this period, the incidence was highest in the age group 70-79 years for both women and men, with 485 and 410 arthroplasties per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively; the overall incidence was 82 per 100,000 inhabitants.
(20) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.