Example sentences for: gaunt

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

  • 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.

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

  • He's 6 feet 10 inches tall, gaunt, with long scraggly hair, a rough complexion, humorless eyes--altogether a bit too much of that hitchhiker look.

  • He looks a mite gaunt, and has been prone to fits of rage lately.

  • An impeccable, moustachioed Sergeant Major MacMahan, gaunt like all the others, wearing the beret and polished insignia of a Scots regiment, stood erect as a flagpole at one end of the barrack hut surveying it all, the angel in charge.


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