Synonym: blank, bleak, bony, desolate, empty, lanky, lean, scrawny, skinny, thin. Similar words: aunt, haunted, jauntily, gaur, gaudy, launch, laundry, staunch. Meaning: [gɔːnt] adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
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31 At the far end, on the dais, Athelstan glimpsed John of Gaunt.
32 Starvation gave a gaunt menace to their sullen anger - and they were angry, he could not doubt it.
33 The grittiness of the coal smoke coming down on those gaunt January afternoons was still in her nostrils.
34 It was a youthful but gaunt face from which a yes meant no.
35 Ruth looked away in panic then braved herself to look back but the gaunt, pinched face had gone.
36 Pedro's heiress was his eldest surviving daughter Constanza, who married John of Gaunt in September 1371.
37 It was hard to say which were skinnier and more gaunt, the men or the animals.
38 There was no garden; the harsh fen grasses ended in a coarse frill flapping against the walls of the gaunt house.
39 The gaunt, grey-haired sergeant fixes me with a studiously suspicious look and takes a note of my name and the time.
40 The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
41 Gaunt raised his hand as if welcoming the plaudits of the crowd.
42 I had nowhere on our journey to and from the horse car seen the man with the gaunt face.
43 Unlike Gaunt, he knew his chances were as slim as a dipstick.
44 When I visited him in hospital Albert looked terrible -- his face was gaunt and his hair had turned grey.
45 His face was remarkable: gaunt, wizened and pale, the skin pulled taut across the prominent bones.
46 There was a good bookshop, and a large ruined building, gaunt and flaking, the Hibernian Hall.
47 A stray mongrel appeared at the end of the alley, its body gaunt from years of neglect.
48 The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
49 The girl lay stiffly, half sitting on top of her bed, a gaunt little scarecrow in patched and threadbare workhouse reach-me-downs.
50 He stood there, the lantern's pale flame casting light and shadow over his gaunt face.
51 And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag.
52 His dry pallid face often looked gaunt.
53 A gaunt, hollow-eyed maid with white skin and dark, burning eyes gazed back at her. Sentencedict.com
54 Colonel Flense also attempted to get his revenge on Gaunt and the Ghosts, as Gaunt has field-executed Flense's father, General Aldo Dercius, many years previously.
55 Athene's horse stood grim and gaunt and motionless beside the temple wall.
56 When Squirrel returned, the other four were with her: gaunt grey-haired Myrtle, Willow Witch-Eye with her long black braid, Frenya of the thick waist and enormous breasts, Holly with her knife.
57 Ogden went to the Gaunt house to serve a summons on Morfin Gaunt.
58 I went numb, panicked, and I fell...I saw my gaunt face and glazy eyes in the mirror, as if standing at the end of infinite time. There is always more pain than gain.
59 Suddenly a gaunt Derek pushes through the restaurant's door, looking like a punch - drunk boxer.
60 His limp wings are filthy gray , his features drawn and gaunt, and his eyes yellowed.