gaunt

Example Sentences

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As Alpha waits for the results of blood tests, she is startled by the sudden appearance of a gaunt, jittery stranger in their apartment.

From Los Angeles Times

Two others were already in the back seat, a soldier and a woman with a gaunt gray face.

From Literature

A woman gaunt as her cattle appeared in the door.

From Literature

Instead of the stocky young man he’d fought less than a moon ago, he was facing a gaunt shadow ..

From Literature

The earl of Arundel’s tomb expresses the grim realities beneath the era’s facade of chivalry: Above, he is depicted resplendent in full armor; below, as a gaunt cadaver.

From The Wall Street Journal