"grow" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The sailor was growing gaunt as the weeks slipped by and he waited for the ax to fall.
- His drawn and sallow face grew even more gaunt.
- He had grown more gaunt in the past three years.
- They slept little, ate less, grew gaunt and tired, seldom spoke about anything but their latest discoveries.
- The horse had grown gaunt and wild eyed, and I could no longer keep him.
- Mary's face had grown gaunt for lack of sufficient nourishment and, in truth, there began to be a somewhat simian look about her.
- The horse, which had grown visibly gaunt during the journey, stepped on to the road with a heaving sigh.
- Even the fur snakes had grown moody and gaunt, foraging in the muck for last year's ground cover.
- Have I grown too gaunt and gray for him?
- Kamerynn had grown gaunt in the recent weeks.
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