(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.
Prey
Definition:
(n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
(n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
(n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
(n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
(3) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
(4) We have four Money Shops in Medway: they know they can prey on the vulnerable, and most residents can't pay back on time.
(5) Plethodontid salamanders capture prey by projecting the tongue from the mouth.
(6) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
(7) As the outer wall was dissolved, outgrowth began with the elongation of the germinant as it emerged from the prey ghost as an actively motile cell.
(8) In the present study the chemical composition of the venom was examined in order to determine the presence of constituents that may have physiologically important actions on the prey.
(9) The fate of those black boys and men rested in the hands of a racist system that preys on the fear and vulnerability of their parents.
(10) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
(11) The latency increase is not likely to be due to motor fatigue, since it can be partially reversed by dishabituation with an alternate prey species.
(12) Two cases are considered: mutualism with the prey and mutualism with the first predator.
(13) At the same time, cetaceans are under threat from a variety of pressures including direct and indirect takes, pollution, and competition for habitat and prey.
(14) A wide range of suggested functions found in the literature include food acquisition, prey attack, aggression and attack behavior, facial expression in intraspecies communications, dispersion of pheromones, maintaining head position in swimming, and a wide range of environmental monitoring (e.g., current detection in water, wind direction on land).
(15) We suggest that the first step of the prey-catching sequence is to adjust the accommodative state of the lenses and thus lock the visual apparatus on to a stimulus.
(16) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
(17) For much of the film, Deckard refuses to identify himself with his prey; after all, that might make him no better than an organic machine.
(18) Phage typing was performed on 795 strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from poultry, a turkey, pigeons, and birds of prey in Japan and 4 countries in Europe, using the avian phage set of typing phages plus 6 others.
(19) Functional morphologists commonly study feeding behavior in vertebrates by recording electrical activity from head muscles during unrestrained prey capture.
(20) The strong reactivity of the two positive yellow baboon sera with SIVagm proteins raises questions about whether these animals may have been infected by green monkeys in their native habitat; baboons occasionally prey upon and eat green monkeys.