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Sentence Examples Its twisted trunk and mangled branches resembled a terrifyingly gaunt person arching their back in immense agony. His tall, gaunt, black-robed form was bent over the center of the circle, absorbed in something that only he could see. He was very handsome, except for the pale skin that was turning brown and the sunken cheeks and other visible hollow or gaunt areas. She looks as though she neither ate nor slept during the entire shoot, with her dark-circled eyes, gaunt frame, and hollow cheeks. The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks. Somebody suggested he probably looks a little more hollow-eyed and gaunt, because he's probably lost some weight, but it's worth the effort. My face seemed somewhat gaunt to me, with slightly sunken green eyes and pert nose. He was thin and gaunt, with an odious pinched white face and fierce big black bushy eyebrows. His features were pale and gaunt, a fixed, haunted expression upon his face. Others have the gaunt, skull-like features and folds of skin you will have seen from television pictures of previous famines. In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past. One cannot fail to be thrilled by the cragginess and gaunt loftiness of such a reading that is enshrined in the history of recordings. The lead actress played her part too well, shrinking through the episodes from gamine to gaunt. His tall and gaunt framed, combined with his dark eyes and black hair, made him distrusted. Her elfin face was thin and angular, almost gaunt, with a small, straight nose. He was gaunt from drinking too much vodka and his marriage was on the skids. The priest's gaunt figure dissolved into the shadows beyond the kitchen door. He is a fair, gaunt man of Norwegian extraction, an international lawyer I think, and has a careful, courteous manner. John was a tall, gaunt man with sunken eyes and a smile that spoke of shyness. She was very gaunt and fairly pale, but her personality was like the glowing stars. Show More Sentences The light from outside the table cast an odd glare on his face, making his face look gaunt. She was gaunt, painfully thin, expressionless, wearing a sleeveless top, dark pants, and sandals. He was gaunt and serious from the start, with minimal hand movements and only slightly gesticulating as he dipped into domestic policy issues. He was gaunt, his blond hair gone stringy, and his greasy tux fit the dress code only under the most generous interpretation. She was achingly gaunt, her skin pasty white, the lines of her face stark and startling in their prominence. Seven miles of bleak shoreline separate Cobra Mist and the gaunt Martello tower at Shingle Street. He juxtaposes these gaunt scenes with striking black-and-white shots of beaches and landscape. The moon had finally moved far enough over the high walls of the pass to cast some of its gaunt white light down into the narrows below. On the tram ride out you pass building sites and the gaunt trusses of an overgrown railway bridge. Cabooses are another fast disappearing symbol of the railways, those that remain are a gaunt remnant of the former glory of a bygone era. One, by the very nature of theatre in the round, is a sense of the house itself as a gaunt, intimidating presence. Fields gave way to scattered woodlands, bare and gaunt against the early winter darkness. Exceedingly tall and gaunt with a long, prognathous jaw, he never took his eyes from me as he went over to an accordion wilted across a stool. She pulled Kaitlin's gaunt body into a sitting position and propped her against the headboard. With movie stars and models getting more gaunt each year, many people go on diets to lose weight to make themselves look and feel better. A powerful half-page photo showed gaunt, desperate-looking London dockers queuing at the dock gate in a dim half-light. Most of the dockworkers laughed at the tall, gaunt looking peasant who was dirty and reeked of farm animals. They jumped and turned about in time to see a gaunt, sour-faced gray man in drab clothing appear with a blue cap in his hand. He was gaunt, unshorn, his dark brown hair tied back in an unfashionable short ponytail. Herge, then aged seventy-one, was a gaunt figure, his face deeply lined, accentuating his sharp features. Show More Sentences At her Julien Park, Diego Martin home, a gaunt, queenly 87-year-old Hazel sat on a sofa, staring into space. Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis. The young wife's gaunt desolation is one of the most haunting aspects of the novel. The other Guards stood back in horror as the man's body hit the floor, a gaunt, withered, specter of their own future. He appeared to be older than he actually was, gaunt and tired, worn-out and thin. The rehabilitation of the gaunt, semi-industrial architecture of this a Grade II listed building has led to some problems. Like relics from an earlier age, they appeared gaunt, angular, rugged and unshaven! Last week, she appeared in the papers looking shockingly gaunt, and it was reported she has been hitting the bottle again. However, at the age of two, she had already lost much of her baby fat, and was in a fair way to becoming as gaunt as her older siblings. He was slightly built, almost gaunt, and appeared to be aged somewhere between thirty and forty years. His large, sad eyes sunken in a gaunt, skull-like face, wide and panic-stricken like those of a frightened deer. He does not, it must be said, match one's idea of a funeral director, being neither gaunt nor sepulchral. The other offender has been described as of mixed race, possibly Asian, 5ft 8ins tall, with a slim build and gaunt features. She appears gaunt, pale, her eyes deep set and dark, answering in almost a monotone voice. The gaunt actress looks more like a heroin addict than the blowzy drunk he had in mind. Ms. McAndrew is used to doing business with hikers down from the trail who arrive in town with gaunt faces, mud-stained boots and unshorn locks. His gaunt face seemed dead as his heavy eyes watched the younger man, hands casually in his pockets. With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building. Henry's gaunt figure came into the rim of light cast by the desk lamp. Even at the age of 42, the outlines of an athlete are plainly visible in the leanness of his frame, the gaunt sharpness of his features and the languid flow of his movement. Show More Sentences There's the winter debris of the summer's plants, especially the strong gaunt stands of thistles, frizzy wands of rosebay willowherb, and upturned umbrellas of umbelliferae. One day I was stunned to see that a particular favorite was a gaunt chain-smoker. His chinless face was gaunt and unshaven, and his deep eye-sockets, together with his habit of looking sideways at people, gave him all the charm of a fresh corpse. A few years back, Specter underwent extreme rounds of chemotherapy that left him gaunt and hairless. Wherever I played football, the huge gaunt stadium was always the touchstone of my career, the place where I came home to show my people that I could still do the job. His hair was limp and unruly, his once cheerful blue eyes were cold and distant, and he was gaunt and tired-looking from the burden he now had to carry. He was gaunt and extremely pale, with parched lips and a beak-like nose. Many looked gaunt, clothes hanging off them as if draped on clothes racks. Within the gaunt pinnacles, in colours that represent ores and igneous rock, Ancient Egyptians, Semites and Nabataeans have left evidence of passage. The sepia tinted tableau is reminiscent of the opening, as a single file of prisoners traipse, gaunt and dirty, into the showers like animals to the slaughter. Two passengers rose, a brown, freckled Cornishwoman, balancing herself along the gangway with a basket of eggs, a gaunt old man in threadbare tweeds stooping after her. Even in its gaunt incompleteness, destitute of the wealth of colour which is meant to adorn it, the interior of Bentley's spacious building is immensely impressive. The tall buildings flickered with a glow of white, gaunt towers rising like obelisks in the night thrusting towards a heaven that would forever elude them. In the small living room where we last met, he seemed more gaunt than wiry, his ear bandaged after a biopsy. Not the picture of Aussie health we're accustomed to locally, she looks like one of those stock-standard European skinnies with her gaunt face, drab hair and stick legs. Even with careful pruning cytisus will become gaunt after about ten years. He had a drawn, gaunt face with a pair of extremely deep-set eyes. She brought choice cuts of meat to the porter's dog, and ordered full meals for the gaunt nuns who came to collect alms at awkward hours of the day. He scoured the gaunt landscape as if his primordial authority was enough to plunge the lid of the monochrome building down to floor level to allow him a cowardly escape. He was gaunt, looked very tired, and was clearly struggling. Show More Sentences In her last public appearances, Winehouse was stick thin and gaunt. It's an oasis in the midst of a concrete jungle,' said Dowd, a gaunt, ruddy-faced Norman Rockwellesque figure. The woman is described as white, in her late thirties, and slimly built with gaunt features. You start losing all this weight and looking gaunt and frail. Umma Raggoo, 60, refused to summon assistance for the stricken resident, who was pale and gaunt, with sunken cheeks. As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald. The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur. A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by. Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded. A fellow trolley pusher here is a gaunt little woman, her complexion screaming for a good moisturiser, her lankily sparse hair too long unpampered. In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt, wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart. Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt, black cliffs. On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat. There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. The gaunt face hardened to grimness, and with both hands the bomb-thrower lifted the big atomic bomb from the box and steadied it against the side. Examples from Classical Literature He was tall and gaunt, and his deeply graven face was framed by grizzled hair. The other three seniors, attracted by the scene, came back, and waited with gaunt. And gaunt, who was standing by, and knew it also, telegraphed a significant look to Huntley. She was gaunt and tall and geeky and talked like an engineer, with the nerd accent. Nothing but long level stretches so bleak, so barren, that a jackrabbit could not have hidden his gaunt, gray body. They're gaunt with famine and driving, and it beats me to think how many more's been left dead crossing the black pine country. Here grow brigalow and mulga, gaunt and weird as the dragon-tree of the Soudan. The gaunt weaver was dry-nurse at Cauldstaneslap, and the bairns loved him dearly. Like a forbidden specter the skeleton of the Ferris wheel stands out gaunt and fleshless. There, twenty feet away, stood the wolfishly gaunt bandolero, a revolver in his right hand trained rigidly on Don Jaime! The Sherlock Holmes of fiction is a gaunt figure, with a hatchet face, spare of flesh. The ailanthus trees were bare at that time, throwing gaunt arms upward to the November sky. It was not a very fat mule, however, but raw-boned and gaunt as a pyrenean wolf. Lancaster got a cigar from the humidor and collapsed his long gaunt body across chair and hassock. Both were thin and wiry, with the gaunt lines of the undernourished showing plainly. At a little distance grazed an old horse, gray and gaunt, springhalt and spavined, with ribs like Death's own. There sat the babushka Stepanida, a black figure in her black shawl, gaunt and shrivelled. Rushing along the path leading to the farmhouse, a gaunt, rawboned farmer was sprinting as for a prize. A single glance he took at that gaunt, familiar figure and then he turned tail and scurried back to his canoe calling his followers after him. On perceiving a young rose-bud of a girl, instead of the gaunt presence of the old maid, a look of surprise was manifest. Show More Sentences At places gaunt scaffolding poles rose like the branchless trees of the brick desert. Her long, gaunt fingers pulled and worked at the knots, but all in vain. They went feverish and gaunt, with parched mouths and griped stomachs. A gaunt old fellow, with only one arm, shambled into the room. He was a gaunt, sharp-eyed, sharp-nosed, and sharp-tongued man. Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death's head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Dore imagined. He could see it plainly between the gaunt trunks of the water-oaks and across the stretch of yellow camomile. Far away I saw a gaunt cat slink crouchingly along a wall, but traces of men there were none. At the very gate he met a gaunt figure riding in on a squab pony. The smoke seemed to impel some terrific force into his gaunt frame. In Doctor Reefy's office, Elizabeth, a tired gaunt old woman at forty-one, sat in a chair near the stove and looked at the floor. Your scrip, a-swinging by your side, Gapes with a gaunt mouth hungry-wide. A gaunt, anaemic southerner, who was with the party of idlers, spoke up. He sat quietly, with a sardonic expression on his gaunt face, and spoke only when the opportunity occurred to throw in a witticism. The village swarmed with them, gaunt, wolflike creatures that guarded the herd by day when it grazed without the palisade, ten dogs to a cow. One of them was as tall as De Launay, gaunt and hatchet faced. The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf. He remembered wandering through dimly lit streets, past gaunt, black-shadowed archways and evil-looking houses. The owner of it was none other than the kind-hearted gaunt grey beggar who had given the Prince the bag of bread-crumbs and the hare. The strain once over, she appeared slack, gaunt, debilitated. Show More Sentences The cook was a gaunt, long-legged person with a saturnine countenance. Her appearance is that of a tall, gaunt hag, with dishevelled hair. Hallo, you sir, cried the Captain, a gaunt rib of the sea, stalking up to Queequeg, what in thunder do you mean by that? By way of answer, Jim twisted his gaunt face in an enigmatical smile. A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes. When the polite landsman first hears it from the gaunt Nantucketer, he is apt to set it down as one of the whaleman's self-derived savageries. It was simply a bare, gaunt, famished skeleton, slaying his way along. He listened with a sceptical smile on his gaunt face, and roared with laughter on hearing that the Professor had convinced me. And Abe Lincoln, with a smile on his gaunt face, rode on toward Lewiston. It was Mr. mcgee lounging into the cabin like a gaunt shadow. It represented a gaunt, ascetic-looking monk, in a tattered gown and cowl, kneeling with clasped hands and pulling a portentously long face. Deacon Ira had been tall and gaunt and sunken and uncommunicative. Baxter pushed her under the wash-basins, and leaped to hold the gaunt woman who crowed and whistled as she struggled toward the window. He had commenced his labors, in the first year of their residence, by erecting a tall, gaunt edifice of wood, with its gable toward the highway. Figures were moving about the gaunt and windowless farm buildings. The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. A fortnight afterwards Trent rode into Attra, pale, gaunt, and hollow-eyed. The senator's gaunt form began to grow dim and hazy, to tower before him and dance about, with figures of exports and imports. In about seven or eight minutes he reached a small shabby house that was wedged in between two gaunt factories. They were gaunt and lantern-jawed, and clothed in tattered buckskin. Show More Sentences Taller and broader than her husband, her flowing gown of sendall, and fur-lined tippet, could not conceal the gaunt and ungraceful outlines of her figure. Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings. I remember well one gaunt Nimrod who would catch up a leaf by the roadside and play a strain on it wilder and more melodious, if my memory serves me, than any hunting-horn. And out of the snow flurries they saw appear a tall, gaunt form, with whiskers of flying white that blended with the storm, bending under a sixty-pound pack of camp dunnage. Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair. It was not very long, indeed, before his coat hung with a discouraged sag from his gaunt shoulders and his hair and beard were rumpled as if he had been out in a gale. And now, his huge gaunt form more erect than it had been for years, with a glinting of blue fires in his small and close-set eyes, he was lifting his ancient chant again. I lied to the dear man, simply because I couldn't bear the idea of him being deprived of the only gratification his big, ascetic, gaunt body ever knew on earth. They have long, gaunt legs, too, and such peaked snouts, that if one of them could be persuaded to sit for his profile, nobody would recognise it for a pig's likeness. He had come gaunt and hollow-eyed from a long siege of sea-sickness. He was the gaunt, taciturn individual we had seen at the wheel. Find more words! 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