Words similar to gaunt

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.
Ni, by contrast, paints six gaunt trees by the riverside and calls the picture Six Gentlemen (1345).
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.
Their brightly painted walls add a welcome touch of color to the gaunt grey trawlers in the docks — from Britain, of course, but also Russia and even Japan.
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.