How to Use gaunt in a Sentence

gaunt

adjective
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  • He left the hospital looking tired and gaunt.
  • The old man was now gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.
    — SI.com, 26 June 2019
  • The panthers had grown gaunt; their tails were crooked.
    — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021
  • Jacob was gaunt and sullen, his beard tied in two long braids.
    — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The schoolmaster was tall and thin with a hunched back and a deep scowl on his gaunt face.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • Those emerging from the Old City at this late stage in the fight were weak, injured, gaunt and pale.
    — Washington Post, 5 July 2017
  • The gaunt killer, dressed in a gray suit, declined the judge’s final offer to address the court.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • The gaunt stillness of the high-ceiling space, that remains pretty much the same.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
  • This is due to the natural gaunt physique of the animal.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2021
  • George Withers, then 54, was a slight man, gaunt and wiry like a coyote, with long brown hair combed to the back of his head.
    — Betsy Teter, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2018
  • When the dance was over, the teacher, looking gaunt and wasted, held the cat in her arms and bowed, shoulders slumped.
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Yet his face is now gaunt, with a way of clouding into melancholy.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The glow of the screen cast a sickly pallor on his gaunt face, highlighting the shadows beneath his eyes.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 24 May 2023
  • Nan’s skinny body, for example, or Benjamin’s gaunt frame in the bath.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Then an ambulance crew rolls a gaunt man with one leg toward me on a stretcher.
    — Gina Siddiqui, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
  • His shaved scalp and gaunt face were tattooed, with a wispy graying beard jutting a few inches out from his chin.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But there were things that could not be altered or concealed: The discolored arms and legs, the gaunt face, the rigidly gaping mouth.
    — Peter Jamison Washington Post, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
  • Alan Hencher, a gaunt man in his mid-40s, worked nights as a switchboard operator.
    — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Their sullen faces appear pale and gaunt having gone without food and water for weeks.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • In Israel, Vladimir — gaunt, old, and white-bearded — demonstrates the kosher preparation of food.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Molly is gaunt, with rotting teeth and scabs dotting her face — a severe case.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2021
  • Dzyadko, who is strikingly tall and thin, looked even more pale and gaunt than usual.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But new photos of the 54-year-old actor looking pale and gaunt have fans worrying about his health.
    — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 3 June 2018
  • Standing in front of the Han Gil that late afternoon was a young woman — a child, really, pale and gaunt.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 3 June 2020
  • Binta, a gaunt woman whose eyes mirror the pain of a hard life and whose hands are rough from farming, was widowed five years ago.
    — Michelle Faul, Orange County Register, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Nobody wanted to see a gaunt cancer patient out of breath, trying to tell jokes.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
  • A gaunt woman had arrived, weeping and shrieking in protest.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 19 June 2017
  • Daniil Medvedev is tall and gaunt, with a patchy mustache under his long, sharp nose and a scrappy goatee on his chin.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Lying on his back with oxygen tubes in his nostrils, John Kline was gaunt, pale and not responding to his son.
    — USA Today, 10 Mar. 2022
  • There were bone-boiling works for the recycling of animal carcasses on the west side, and even the pigs in the area, it was noted, were gaunt.
    — Hazlitt, 26 Apr. 2022

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