gaunt

How to use gaunt in a sentence

Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.

The Seneschal stood with blanched face and gaping mouth, his fire all turned to ashes before the passion of this gaunt man.

A gaunt, hard-featured domestic completed this interesting family, and she was uncommon too.

The little name sounded so incongruous; it did not suit the big gaunt woman who had almost a touch of the monstrous in her.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

He was tall and gaunt, with an unnaturally white face and a mass of hair almost as white in color, though not from age.

The gaunt outline followed them; each time he looked back the shadow cast was closer than before, almost upon their heels.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

The gaunt creature rose, and placed the basket on the table before Mrs. Rushmere.

So still he lay, so gaunt he looked, that Harry's heart gave a great bound; he feared he was dead.

In recent days it has been again devastated by the great world war, as its gaunt ruins mutely tell.

A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985