adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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She was sitting up in bed, her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers.
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The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
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I had nowhere on our journey to and from the horse car seen the man with the gaunt face .
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It was a youthful but gaunt face from which a yes meant no.
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A wraith with bright eyes in his gaunt face .
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He stood there, the lantern's pale flame casting light and shadow over his gaunt face .
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The devilish smile, oblique and sharp as a scar, had come back to the gaunt face .
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He was in his mid-fifties with a gaunt face and thinning wavy red hair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He has lost his hair and some teeth and appeared quite gaunt .
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The District Attorney at forty-four had the gaunt look of a man twenty years older.
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When I visited him in hospital Albert looked terrible -- his face was gaunt and his hair had turned grey.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
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It looked gaunt and inhospitable, he realised.
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It was a youthful but gaunt face from which a yes meant no.
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It was hard to say which were skinnier and more gaunt , the men or the animals.
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Ruth looked away in panic then braved herself to look back but the gaunt , pinched face had gone.
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The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
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The grittiness of the coal smoke coming down on those gaunt January afternoons was still in her nostrils.