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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

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 ● Feb. 11, 2026

Emerging gaunt and pale from Israeli custody last week, the teenager bore little resemblance to the photos that had been circulated to campaign for his release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

Based in leafy south-west London, the Victorian-era facility - with its gaunt brick walls and a dark intimidating entrance - is one of the largest in the UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Silver threaded the coils of hair escaping from my mother’s headscarf, and her face was more gaunt than I remembered it, but I recognized her in an instant.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

Looking greyer, gaunter, grimmer than ever, Utah's 70-year-old Senator Reed Smoot arose behind his paper-cluttered aisle desk last week to perform an important function.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was Mr Pepson, gaunter than ever, with signs of suffering written on his face, which now showed the utmost astonishment and delight.

From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

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

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