haunting tune

Frequency: 7.50.3 per million words

A tune that is beautiful, sad, or frightening and difficult to forget.

hauntingADJECTIVE + NOUN

Categories:

tune

Examples (10)

  • The old music box played a haunting tune that filled the room with nostalgia.
  • She couldn't get the haunting tune from the folk song out of her head.
  • A lone cello began to play a haunting tune, filling the concert hall with melancholy.
  • In the horror movie, a haunting tune always preceded the ghost's appearance.
  • Do you remember that haunting tune that was the main theme of the film?
  • The wind whistled a haunting tune through the cracks in the old windowpane.
  • His final composition was a haunting tune that seemed to express both sorrow and peace.
  • I keep humming this haunting tune, but I can't remember where I heard it.
  • The game's soundtrack features a particularly haunting tune during the exploration of the abandoned city.
  • As the protagonist walked away, the soundtrack swelled with a beautiful and haunting tune.