Example sentences for: gaunt

How can you use “gaunt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Vosloo doesn't have the physiognomy for a role incarnated variously by the gaunt Boris Karloff (1932) and the totemic Christopher Lee (1959).

  • One gaunt statue, Ombra della Sera (Evening Shadow), is an uncanny 2,000-year-old precursor of a modern Giacometti.

  • Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt.

  • The hard-core ones spin their own clothes, subsist on hardtack and salt pork, speak in 19 th -century dialect, and starve themselves in order to attain the gaunt look of Confederate troops.

  • Beneath the roadside sycamores, as if a newsreel unspooled in my head, I see a squirrel, gaunt, great-eyed as a prisoner half-starved, its face dissolving into the demon's face ...


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