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It was the first time that the famous prisoner had been seen publicly in years, and he appeared aged and gaunt.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

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 ● Mar. 26, 2026

The pressure he felt at Merrill made him look even more gaunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Other prisoners have appeared gaunt and almost unrecognisable.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

Sitting in its bow window were RAF Maidsend’s gaunt and weary squadron leader and a bespectacled well-turned-out civilian in a tweed suit.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

For the last two-thirds of the film we mainly follow the wanderings of Garfield’s Father Rodrigues, who grows ever gaunter, more ragged, and more spiritually bereft.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2016

Now it was Lind say, gaunter and grayer after. four years of grappling with crises, who seemed like a man on the defensive.

From Time Magazine Archive

After a month of illness in Lahore, Jinnah recently returned to Karachi, gaunter than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bob Dole's cranky bombast suggests a gaunter Foghorn Leghorn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Andy's lean figure had become gaunter than ever.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe

At last even the gauntest of them filled up and left the room and we were free to sit at "the second table" and eat, while the men rested outside.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

One part of the lane he could see plainly, and into it stalked Joel Creech, leading the leanest and gauntest ponies Slone had ever seen.

From Wildfire by Zane Grey

It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that ever scared the motor-bicycles on the Northampton Road.

From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells