How to Use gaunt in a Sentence

gaunt

adjective

• He left the hospital looking tired and gaunt.
• With his face so gaunt and angular, the eyes popped even more, attaining a nocturnal, predatory aura.
  — Marco Grob, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
• The old man was now gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.
  — SI.com, 26 June 2019
• The panthers had grown gaunt; their tails were crooked.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021
• Piles of rubble lie along a dirt road amid gaunt trees.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 23 May 2024
• Jacob was gaunt and sullen, his beard tied in two long braids.
  — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• The schoolmaster was tall and thin with a hunched back and a deep scowl on his gaunt face.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 June 2022
• The face that looked back at her in the rearview mirror was gaunt, her skin pale around glassy hazel eyes.
  — Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Those emerging from the Old City at this late stage in the fight were weak, injured, gaunt and pale.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2017
• The gaunt killer, dressed in a gray suit, declined the judge’s final offer to address the court.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• The gaunt stillness of the high-ceiling space, that remains pretty much the same.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
• This is due to the natural gaunt physique of the animal.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2021
• George Withers, then 54, was a slight man, gaunt and wiry like a coyote, with long brown hair combed to the back of his head.
  — Betsy Teter, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2018
• When the dance was over, the teacher, looking gaunt and wasted, held the cat in her arms and bowed, shoulders slumped.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
• Yet his face is now gaunt, with a way of clouding into melancholy.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
• Even when Navalny was a gaunt prisoner, Putin seemed afraid of him.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
• The glow of the screen cast a sickly pallor on his gaunt face, highlighting the shadows beneath his eyes.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 24 May 2023
• Nan’s skinny body, for example, or Benjamin’s gaunt frame in the bath.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Then an ambulance crew rolls a gaunt man with one leg toward me on a stretcher.
  — Gina Siddiqui, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
• His shaved scalp and gaunt face were tattooed, with a wispy graying beard jutting a few inches out from his chin.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
• But there were things that could not be altered or concealed: The discolored arms and legs, the gaunt face, the rigidly gaping mouth.
  — Peter Jamison Washington Post, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Alan Hencher, a gaunt man in his mid-40s, worked nights as a switchboard operator.
  — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
• Their sullen faces appear pale and gaunt having gone without food and water for weeks.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
• In Israel, Vladimir — gaunt, old, and white-bearded — demonstrates the kosher preparation of food.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Molly is gaunt, with rotting teeth and scabs dotting her face — a severe case.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• Dzyadko, who is strikingly tall and thin, looked even more pale and gaunt than usual.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• But new photos of the 54-year-old actor looking pale and gaunt have fans worrying about his health.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 3 June 2018
• Standing in front of the Han Gil that late afternoon was a young woman — a child, really, pale and gaunt.
  — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 3 June 2020
• Binta, a gaunt woman whose eyes mirror the pain of a hard life and whose hands are rough from farming, was widowed five years ago.
  — Michelle Faul, Orange County Register, 6 Jan. 2017
• Nobody wanted to see a gaunt cancer patient out of breath, trying to tell jokes.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 29 May 2022

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024