haunting memory
Frequency: 8.20.4 per million words
A memory, often of something sad or traumatic, that persistently comes to mind.
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The war left him with a haunting memory of the battlefield.
- She tried to forget the accident, but it remained a haunting memory that surfaced in her nightmares.
- The image of the abandoned house was a haunting memory from his childhood.
- He was plagued by haunting memories of his past mistakes.
- The scent of rain on dry earth always triggers a haunting memory of her last day with him.
- For the survivors, the disaster is a haunting memory they live with every day.
- Despite his success, the haunting memory of his impoverished upbringing never truly left him.
- How can one ever escape such a haunting memory?
- He writes poetry to cope with a haunting memory that follows him everywhere.
- Her last words became a haunting memory for everyone who heard them.