Sample Sentences for
gaunt
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    Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and saw a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood.  (source)
    gaunt = very thin and long-suffering
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    We starving prisoners stood at attention, with our hunched shoulders and gaunt faces and oversized, filthy clothes, while healthy, well-fed children and their mothers came to see the animals.  (source)
    gaunt = thin and bony
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    His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.  (source)
    gaunt = very thin and bony
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    The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.  (source)
    gaunt = very thin and bony
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    There's things to eat if you look hard, but don't antagonize the night-gaunts.†  (source)
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    After each visit, he returned looking gaunter, his snout often rubbed raw from where he had fretted it against the grating of his cage, and when he got home he would collapse in the corner and sleep heavily for hours.†  (source)
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    Her beauty had gone to a kind of fragile gauntness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Her obstetrician, Dr. Ashley, gauntly handsome in a Lord Mountbatten sort of way, with fine sand-colored hair swept back from his temples, arrives to examine her progress.†  (source)
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    I was just sorry for them bone-gaunted mules.†  (source)
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    Without question, they were the gauntest, mangiest, slinkiest, and most oppressed group I had ever laid eyes on.†  (source)
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    "All ready," assured Diana, as Marilla appeared in the doorway, a gaunt figure with grayer hair than of yore and no fewer angles, but with a much softer face.  (source)
    gaunt = very thin
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    Don't want the night-gaunts stealing him.†  (source)
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    By my faith, said one of the knights, his name was Sir Gaunter, I will ride after him and assay him for all his pride, and ye may behold how that I speed.†  (source)
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