(a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Example Sentences:
(1) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(3) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He commands the screen even when silent, his pain flitting across that gaunt, ravaged face … Sean Bean in Broken.
(5) In March, Paul Nuttalls called for Johnny and the Baptists to be banned from any venue receiving public subsidy – basically everywhere – for doing a funny song about the Ukips, even though the same places host Jim Davidson, Roy Chubby Brown, John Gaunt and Top Gear; the same week Farage defended the booking of an old-school non-PC comic at the Ukips’ conference saying: “Let people tell their jokes!
(6) Whoops and cheers turned to screams of delight as a gaunt-looking figure mounted the steps and slowly approached the microphone.
(7) It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
(8) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(9) Furthermore Orange RN which by azo reduction yields ANSA (and aniline) induce the same effect in pigs (Olsen et al., 1973) but not in rats (Gaunt et al., 1971).
(10) Perhaps it is the classically gaunt face, or maybe it is the aquiline nose, but he looks exactly like Don Quixote.
(11) A gaunt-looking Shalit told Egyptian TV that he hoped the deal would promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians and also spoke of his desire to see freedom for thousands of others Palestinians still held by Israel .
(12) Before the attack for which I was arrested, no one in Balochistan knew I had disappeared,” he said, dressed in a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, drinking a coffee with a gaunt look in his eyes as he nervously twisted a rolled up cigarette in his hand.
(13) He was gaunt and frail, living from one morphine dose to the next.
(14) At my father's bedside, I learned what death looks like Read more For many Glaswegians, Possilpark has a reputation, one resented deeply by its residents, built on images of drug addicts and alcoholics clustered on street corners, of gaunt men and women with hardened, ruined faces queuing outside pharmacies at 7.30am for their methadone handouts.
(15) The son of a police officer, Gaunt is hailed as "the monster who roars for coppers" on the website of the Metropolitan police federation .
(16) Abandoned farms dot the landscape: gaunt timber-framed skeletons, their owners given up and gone to California or Seattle.
(17) Bin Laden appeared gaunt and apparently wounded in a video.
(18) The Everton manager, who looks gaunt and shattered after a dreadful festive period, conceded: “We are still in a very bad run and need to turn it around.
(19) They criticise the decision to fund a £15,000-a-month contract with the Gaunt Brothers, a PR company, to use "blitzkrieg" and "guerrilla" tactics was a major error that damaged the Fed's reputation.
(20) It shows Litvinenko gaunt and emaciated on his hospital bed, and is the last image of him alive, the inquiry heard.
Jaunt
Definition:
(v. i.) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
(v. i.) To ride on a jaunting car.
(v. t.) To jolt; to jounce.
(n.) A wearisome journey.
(n.) A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(2) Caribou soon became a surprisingly hard-gigging unit, supporting Radiohead on their 2012 arena jaunt at the same time as Dan was touring the world’s premier techno clubs under his dance alias Daphni.
(3) Trump administration officials have argued that the president’s weekend jaunts are correctly described as working weekends: this includes hosting Japan’s prime minister, Shinzō Abe, over the weekend of 10 February and interviewing potential national security adviser picks over this past weekend.
(4) The fans cheered heartily as he broke away from ‘security’ to continue his jaunt.
(5) Your thoughts please: Has Marvel finally jumped the intergalactic space shark with this latest jaunt to planet weird?
(6) We'll go on a global jaunt to the places we've always craved to see.
(7) By day two, we’ve gone to visit his Scandi dream house, tried on his pilot’s hat, had dinner with his wife, and taken in more geysers and cross-country ski jaunts.
(8) May 19, 2017 Even before Trump’s trip morphed from a quick jaunt to Europe into a nine-day behemoth, White House aides were on edge about how the president would take to the grueling pressures of foreign travel: the time zone changes, the unfamiliar hotels, the local delicacies.
(9) Hillary missed the historic event, stuck out, as she was, in Timor-Leste, on one of her epic global jaunts as secretary of state; but she managed to catch it on computer at the residence of the local US ambassador.
(10) His current trip to the west coast, only the latest in a series of California jaunts, is devoted primarily to appealing for help with securing US defense networks – embracing the robust encryption that the FBI warns will lock law enforcement out of judicially-authorized criminal and national security investigations.
(11) Finally, Ned Stark's bastard, Jon Snow, rejoined the Night's Watch after a jaunt with the Wildlings left him with the lesson that love hurts.
(12) Ordinarily, it's an uneventful jaunt through suburbia.
(13) (“There are people who were really into us when we started but don’t think we’re cool any more.”) Despite their stumbles, Alt-J return next month with a strong sophomore record, This is All Yours , on which the familiar dreamy, half-murmured indie meanderings of An Awesome Wave are interwoven with some unexpected pop jags, a Miley Cyrus sample (on summer single Hunger of the Pine ) and the phrase “Gee whizz!” (in pop jaunt Left Hand Free ) among them.
(14) And given Bowie's famously electric stage performances, he might actually want to tour – the jaunt to promote his last album, 2003's Reality, lasted a year before it was cut short.
(15) Personally, I think they should cut it back now before they regret it,” she said of Trump’s long jaunt.
(16) Every Monday morning, Hill visits for a chat and sometimes a jaunt out.
(17) Equally, a powerful upturn in exports would help lift UK plc to solid ground – hence Osborne's jaunt to China last week – but with the eurozone, still our major market, just clambering out of recession, that looks highly unlikely.
(18) In French Polynesia, this was followed by a jaunt on David Geffen’s 45ft yacht with celebrities including Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Springsteen.
(19) Photograph: White House Sarah Palin showers Donald Trump with adoration in 'interview of the year' Read more Palin said Obama’s visit to her state was “a tourism jaunt, really”, and criticised the president for his attitude to Russia and China, both of which have increased their military presence near Alaska.
(20) Held every year at the vast Los Angeles convention centre (except for a couple of ill-remembered jaunts to Atlanta, and two years when it was semi-cancelled), it is a trade-only event that everyone in the business has to attend at least once.