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Example sentences for "gauntness"

Lexicographically close words:
gaunt; gaunted; gauntlet; gauntleted; gauntlets; gauze; gauzes; gauzy; gav; gavata
  1. But it has a certain bluntness and gauntness of its own, standing solid and stark in the plain meadowland of the Wey.

  2. It is the stubbled chin that completes the gauntness of the shipwrecked countenance.

  3. Barbara glanced at him sharply, and noticed the gauntness of his face and the spareness of his frame, which had become accentuated since she had last seen him.

  4. The moonlight shone into it, and it was, she noticed, quieter and a little grimmer than it had been, while his sinewy frame still showed spare to gauntness in the thin conventional dress.

  5. The dim light and the flickering radiance from the fire were still on one side of his face, forcing it up with all its gauntness of outline, but the weakness had gone out of it, and for once it was strong and almost stern.

  6. The horses were as discouraged-looking as ever, but the children had learned that their gauntness and melancholy were rather habits than the proof of actual discomfort.

  7. Beside her stood Rosie Gruber, as tall and gaunt as ever, but now her gauntness had the effect of an original design, and when the Ark had first known her Rosie had given the impression of being gaunt from over-work and under-feeding.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gauntness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.