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).

  • 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.

  • Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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