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Example sentences for: gaunt

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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 ...
He looks a mite gaunt, and has been prone to fits of rage lately.
At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.
But Vosloo doesn't have the physiognomy for a role incarnated variously by the gaunt Boris Karloff (1932) and the totemic Christopher Lee (1959).
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.