How To Use Yawn In A Sentence

One's feet were cold and the uncertainty of everything made one yawny but not sleepy.
Harrieth woke up and rubbed the sleep dust from her eyes, she yawned deeply, throwing her arms out to the side.
Come ten o'clock in the evening we've generally begun to stretch and yawn, and by ten thirty the house is quiet except for gentle snoring.
Everyone I've seen in London today has got bleary eyes, and is yawning.
It is claimed, probably incorrectly, that in social environments yawning and weariness are due to an accumulation of carbon dioxide.

You will be able to see where the yawning gaps are up ahead. Life Without Work
She raised her small gloved fist, yawned ever so gently, tiptapping her small gloved fist on her opening mouth and smiled tinily, sweetly. Ulysses
Kurai says ‘I need a drink’ and then he yawns, covering his mouth with one hand.
The place was Podunk City, a pimple of yawns on a bare white butt.
He yawned, leaning back in his chair and rumpling his hair.
Do you gaze glassy-eyed at the television, and find yourself yawning at the radio news? Times, Sunday Times
I struggled out, disturbing the lazy whatsits as little as possible, and yawned my way in the general direction of the unusual sounds.
I've spent most of the weekend cleaning and doing laundry - yawn.
As Dinosaur proved, slow-moving animals trying to get to safe land is a yawner, no matter who voices the animals.
Will this game end up being another in a continual line of Monday-night yawners?
Kaylen wormed out of Drek's arms and yawned, stretching her hands into the air.
This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn. Archive 2007-09-01
The pit yawned open in front of them.
I was waiting in the twilight semi-darkness, yawning, eyes half closed, and basically looking like a zombie.
I'm half-hoping he picks Chuck Hagel just because the sound of ten thousand Progressives 'heads exploding will make a more interesting noise than the nation-sized collective yawn that's going to greet whoever else it might be. Lance Mannion:
I can't stop yawning - I must be tired.
But there is a yawning gap in timing between what he would love to happen tomorrow and what is still the case. Times, Sunday Times
That fanned fears that decisive action may be less likely to address the yawning budget deficit. Times, Sunday Times
Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
Buying cokes on your cell fone is coming, but it is a yawner, and has nothing to do with rural broadband. Matthew Yglesias » Going Wireless
Employers have paid 44 billion in contributions in the past three years in an attempt to narrow their yawning deficits, but to little avail. Times, Sunday Times
This channel usually remains closed and only opens when you yawn or swallow. The Sun
She stifled a cough/yawn/scream/sneeze.
Yawning and headache are the most common adverse reactions.
The sheer Hip-ness of Evolution can feel like a bit of a yawn given the little risk of alienating such a loyal audience by pushing the envelope a touch.
She would almost stop, as though climbing a mountain, then rapidly rolling to right and left as she gained the summit of a huge sea, she steadied herself and paused for a moment as though affrighted at the yawning precipice before her. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
No longer could I stand for barely a minute, I had begun holding onto walls for support as I walked, I coughed and yacked indescribable things into the bathroom sink, I yelled at the kids playing on my yawn. Spilling Sand
Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed. The Best Endings in Science Fiction
The cracks in your relationship are yawning too wide. The Sun
The release goes on to list a number of chest-thumping accomplishments guaranteed to induce yawns among anyone who knows better.
This conversation is yawny.
He clapped a hand over his mouth, as if to stifle a burp or cover a yawn.
One person's yawn is another person's chills up and down the spine. Day trip to Mexico City
Skipper Stewart Drummond headed over from a corner, Danny Carlton hit a snapshot over the bar when he looked a certain scorer, Chris Lane saw his header come back into play from the crossbar and Lee Collins miskicked in front of a yawning net.
Yet the meeting has elicited only a collective yawn from the US and even European press despite its agenda is to replace the global dollar standard with a new financial and military defense system. Not to bum you out or anything (Jack Bog's Blog)
I yawned constantly, and yet could not sleep; I hugged myself imagining it was Harry's bear-like hug - such a brilliant hugger, often lifting me off my feet to stretch my backbone.
He took his pipe from his mouth and gave an elaborate yawn, which seemed to take him by surprise.
Put frankly, the whole thing was one big yawn which was mitigated only by the fact that it was a beautiful sunny day.
Yawn in a semiswoon lay awailing and (hooh!) what helpings of honeyful swoothead (phew!), which ear-piercing dulcitude! Finnegans Wake
I spent this period of instruction trying to stifle yawns and resisting saying how old-hat this all seemed.
‘Oh I'm sure I'll get over it one day,’ said Tom, stretching out like a cat and yawning widely.
The offense has been an absolute yawner through two games.
The page stirred from his pallet on the hearth and poked the fire back to life, then padded over, yawning, with a candle.
We have to go to dinner with Simon's boss on Saturday which is a bit of a yawn.
Yawning ['jni ] and headache are the most common adverse reactions.
Stretching forth her sleepy limbs she yawns in tiredness.
Slippers and boots lay about; the portmanteau yawned wide open, with some soiled shirts on the top; a pair of trousers trailed from a chair on the floor. A Mummer's Wife
I yawned and stretched my arms, avoiding his gray eyes and feeling a little self-conscious at having gravitated toward him in sleep. Darkness Becomes Her
His yawns suggested he was either tired or bored.
You can tell a loud yawner to shut up, and she will yawn with more tonal precaution, turning her yawn into a softer, more weightless expulsion of breath.
Next, Oppenheimer rolled back on his back, gingerly took one of his front upper teethan eyetoothbetween thumb and forefinger, and consideratively moved it back and forth Again he yawned, stretched his arms, rolled over, and knocked the call to Ed Morrell. Chapter 20
‘The Hives have been playing the same songs for about two and a half centuries! ‘jokes Swedish rocker Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist before launching into a set of brand new garage yawners.
Yawn, I want a picture where the wrestler is grappling with …. .the truth. CAGE OUT, ROURKE IN ARONOFSKY PICTURE
It was an era when politics had passion and party political conventions could be dramatic, world - changing events rather than media-manipulated yawns.
A yawning man is lying on a lawn in the dawn.
a stifled yawn
It matters because it tells us of the yawning chasm between Labour's dreams and what happens when it tries to implement a policy.
She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.
And frankly, there's simply no excuse for being a crashing great bore in a switched-on, wired-up era which lets you tune in to the best of the world's news and culture faster than you can stifle a yawn.
I was getting very yawny myself, but they kept pressing coffee on me.
And, when I'd finished, yawn, deliberate, foppish, showing an ice-cream-pink mouth and curled pink tongue. ON CATS
A great gap yawned between the rocks.
On receiving the unexpected order, Pepe rose from his habitual attitude of recumbence, stretched himself at his leisure, yawned several times, and then obeyed the summons, saying as he went out: "What the devil fancy has the captain got into his head to send for _me_? Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora
But an earthquake had changed the scene — under our very feet the earth yawned — deep and precipitous the gulph below opened to receive us, while the hours charioted us towards the chasm. The Last Man
The next morning my mouth opened in a yawn with uttermost content.
Alexis felt a compelling need to yawn but as she opened her mouth the arm tightened.
Time was I'd sit through a night like this, welcome the dawn, tread the dewy grass and catch an hour or so of sleep before the world yawned and started about its business.
Equality experts also argue that it could help close the yawning pay gap between men and women. Times, Sunday Times
At last we reach the summit, where Alex shrinks back from the yawning chasm.
Until now, I would have defied anyone to be able to make a documentary on the Somme that didn't reduce the audience to tears, but they managed not just to leave us with dry eyes, but to replace them with yawns.
I stifled a yawn as I fumbled with the key, finally sticking it in correctly and turning the lock.
This explains why on a given Sunday the sermon is a wide yawn for many. Christianity Today
“because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes, awww!” On the road: part one | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
And beware anyone caught yawning in the open air. Times, Sunday Times
The deep crevasse yawned at their feet.
What makes Aung San Suu Kyi so very special – and Buddhists will yawn – is that she is a meditator. Archive 2009-05-01
Angelique yawned and shifted sideways in the throne for comfort, lifting her legs over the right arm rest.
Canada Reads chooses a (yawn) winner … (the yawn is for Canada Reads, which is getting a little stale, no? News sluice
The cost of not repairing them could be huge as motorists can claim if their car has been damaged by a yawning chasm in the road. Times, Sunday Times
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You can't yawn for being bombarded with political rhetoric. The Sun
I found myself alone, standing at the entrance to a yawning limestone cavern, dazzled by dawning sunlight.
If like the rest of us you feel this year's Big Brother is a bit * yawn * compared to other years then join with us to keep the rebellious Dubliner in the house.
He was unusually inattentive in class and yawned so much one teacher sent him to the sick room. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Clicking his tongue, breathing heavily, standing listlessly and with a dull-witted look on his face at times, he couldn't even keep himself from yawning.
He didn't look like he smiled that often, but when he opened his mouth to yawn; a set of pearly white teeth were exposed.
The hour-long flight takes in both sections of the Gregory National Park and passes over luxuriant river valleys, yawning gorges, rocky ravines and a chain of magnificent flattop sandstone mesas.
He yawns, covering his mouth, and hears the sound of the television playing somewhere in the house.
The concert was a predictable yawn.
Then Arrhae shut the computer down, with a yawn not entirely feigned, went to the clothespress in the main room, and pulled out her carrybag. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
Yawning, he lifted his arm and squinted at the luminescent numbers of his watch. CORMORANT
This started with a big yawn: Bush saying 'we will not waver' in its support of Iraq's new and fragile democracy ', which is just more babble from the Prez, same crap we've heard before, and about as effective as anything else he's babbled. Unintentional Iraq Funneez
When you've reached that great yawning chasm of despair and see no hope at all, then it's time to make that call.
His eyes shimmered in the low light and he yawned and curled his purple striped tail around his cat body.
He yawned as the last glimpses of the July sun disappeared over the horizon.
A scrawny dog lay in the doorway of a hut, yawning widely.
‘I wonder if there's hope out there,’ said Eleto as he stretched and let out a sleepy yawn.
He yawned, stretching, and there was a popping sound as his spine cracked into place.
This yawning gulf between their reality and ours is a very modern concern. Times, Sunday Times
That fanned fears that decisive action may be less likely to address the yawning budget deficit. Times, Sunday Times
This generation gap between older and younger men is an increasingly yawning chasm. Times, Sunday Times
She yawned dramatically and cast me a coy look through hooded eyes.
I yawned as we sat, waiting for a plane ungodly early that morning.
And as always, there is a yawning chasm between their accounts of what happened and what others say took place. Times, Sunday Times
He yawns, tries to apologize, looks slightly surprised to find he can't, clutches his chest, begins to gasp. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
A door hissed and yawned open and an alien spindled his legs down the ramp. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
He yawned his jaws out of joint.
Estrella yawned a little, and closed her eyes, listening silently to the serene sound of birds chirping and the small insects of summer buzzing.
He yawned and inhaled the dusty, musty air that he had become so familiar with over the last five years.
Hugh Bradley was in the pool recently and said the two boys had yawns as wide as a hippopotamus' mouth.
It begins with what is called the gapes; that is, the fowl, being unable to breathe through its nostrils, keeps its beak open, with a kind of convulsive yawn; the eyelids then become swelled and close, and there is an offensive discharge from the nostrils. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Their little house sat secret and smug as a tomb, and the arched entrance to the mews was a black yawn beside it. More Work for the Undertaker
Next, you give a huge yawn. The Sun
He rubbed his eyes and yawned as though waking up after a long sleep.
He slowly slid down into a sitting position and let out a yawn.
Yawning, the teenage girl reached to scratch her neck, and felt the marks left there on her vein.
She yawned, stared absently at Joey's note Iying beside the potted pothos on its red plaid runner. FAMILY BLESSINGS
Above Muir, you'll wend your way past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
I felt so sleepy I couldn't stop yawning.
People will be looking for the sums and despite the eighty or so people last night, many think that the whole thing is a big yawn.
By 11.30 pm, my stomach was growling and I was lying horizontal on the sofa yawning, as she made mention yet again of leaving.
It was a relief and rather an anticlimax when the yawning official stamped my passport without a single glance at my stuff. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
There is and always has been a yawning gap at the budget end of the amplifier market.
Not only did you have the filthy rich people winning it but the race was a yawner.
In the dawn light, Byron yawned and walked towards the stern where Hurio was steering the small fishing craft.
Do you start the day with a yawn instead of a smile?
At first, Pearl had gone too, but Pearl yawned and squirmed and elbowed Jane to whisper, Would it be rude to leave early? Uprising
The sleepy doorman let them out with barely a glance, too busy stifling a yawn. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
It gave a sharp kling-klang like a suddenly struck cymbal -- and lo! ... the marble floor yawned asunder, and the banquet-table with all its costly fruits and flowers vanished underground with the swiftness of lightning! Ardath
I know the MSM’s collective yawn is kind of a letdown. Think Progress » A bad time to be a senior administration official.
We couldn't help yawning during the speech.
The furcot merely bunked, yawned, and started preening itself with a forepaw. Shopgirls
A second commentary by producer David Foster, however, is a yawner - superfluous, dreary, dull, and offering nothing of interest.
The 11-year-old made no effort to stifle a wide yawn as she rocked forward in her chair and stared at the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Every bend takes you higher while your breath is suspended looking at the yawning chasm below.
In fact, it really just underlines the now yawning chasm between the old and new world approaches to wine.
But we are tired, and Mum mistakes our tiredness and stifled yawns for boredom.
The large void, terrible in its complete nothingness, yawned again before me and around me and inside me.
Some of these bridges, plain and unpainted, are like small houses which have woken from sleep, yawned themselves open at both ends, and stretched luxuriously like cats.
Brilliantly translated by Christopher Hampton, directed with hair-trigger timing by 31-year-old Matthew Warchus (who staged it in London), "" Art '' takes that yawny old bore, the play of ideas, and jolts it to life. Paint The Town White
With a stretch, a yawn and a scratch, he adjusted his position and returned to sleep, a spot of dribble suspended from his mouth.
Same with Squeeze, for that matter; they too sailed from the port of Melody and wandered the Sargasso bogs for years, turning out hours of mid-tempo yawners.
At times he half-rose from his chair, and fell vacuously into it again; or he chuckled in the face of weighty, severely-worded instructions; tapped his chest, stretched his arms, yawned, and in short behaved so singularly that Richard observed it, and said: "On my soul, I don't think you know a word I'm saying. Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4
Now at the top of the local politics food chain, Adams 'weaknesses are revealed, and the revelation is a yawner: Adams is, in fact, a mediocre leader who's finding out that the smarmy platitudes are no longer sufficient, and cannot replace leadership, real ethics, and courageous judgement. Tick, tick, tick (Jack Bog's Blog)
Getting out to inspect, we discovered a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge, with two girders going across it.
In its less stellar moments, the songwriting can be a bit of a yawn-fest with cliched choruses that are repeated ad nauseam.
Those fans are going to greet the new contract between owners and players with a massive yawn.
But there is a yawning gap in timing between what he would love to happen tomorrow and what is still the case. Times, Sunday Times
Tom was yawning sleepily, and Lily was already napping peacefully on his skinny shoulder.
Frankly, the thought of Rick Rubin sticking his mitts in there makes me yawny. Can Rick Rubin resurrect ZZ Top? | EW.com
I blinked my eyes blearily and opened my mouth to yawn; I felt thick and slow.
HEMMER: They just kind of yawned at that yesterday, didn't they? CNN Transcript May 4, 2005
Why Clinton administration officials have opened such a yawning credibility gap is hard to say.
Tinara opened her mouth to reply, but she suddenly put a hand to her mouth and yawned.
Loose-jointedly Milt climbed a loose-jointed high stool and to the proprietor, Bill McGolwey, his best friend, he yawned, Free Air
She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley, scratches her bottom through the cambric, and yawns.
Sad to say, it's hard not to stifle a yawn. Times, Sunday Times
There exists nowadays a yawning gap between fashion and style.
But the comedy is ghastly dull, the choreography fussy and boring - a yawn a minute, I thought sourly.
Once the fire was stable, he returned to his spot, yawned deeply, and went to sleep.
It was just that no one was willing to replace a pithy phrase with either an ugly acronym or a yawn-inducing mouthful.
There is plenty of time for our patented 10-point-plan yawner of a stump speech as we move into the next election cycle.
A team of Japanese scientists, led by Toshiyuki Hata of the Kagawa University School of Medicine, is using 3-D ultrasound to count fetal blinks and yawns, and to document what they call expressions like smiling, scowling, and sticking out the tongue. Origins
Falling stock markets have caused yawning gaps to appear between the assets and liabilities of final salary pension schemes.
Wordlessly they walked the last few yards to the yawning chasm in the ground, their little fingers linked once more.
Caleb woke up with a great big yawn, his carmine tongue flicking over the roof of his mouth.
He yawned and fell asleep.
The hell yawns for that rogue.
“Sitting!” repeated Mr Meadows, with a yawn, “O worse and worse! it dispirits me to death! it robs me of all fire and life! it weakens circulation, and destroys elasticity.” Cecilia
Now, with a mind that is probably as sharp as it ever was, the only movements she can make are blinks and small yawns.
suppress a yawn
She yawned during his lecture.
But the word yawn is not found in Love's dictionary, and consequently the unlucky husband was forced to rise from his bed preparatory to going forth to perform deeds of valor in obedience to the commands of his mistress. The Home in the Valley
There is plenty of time for our patented 10-point-plan yawner of a stump speech as we move into the next election cycle.
Yawning, I pad over to my desk and switch on the lamp.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes BoxingScene.com
Sad to say, it's hard not to stifle a yawn. Times, Sunday Times
It's a sad day when 90 minutes of football is all about stifling the yawns.
There's no yawning chasm of difference. Times, Sunday Times
The Chartreux cat stared belligerently at Sam, yawned and began licking a black paw.
It was an era when politics had passion and party political conventions could be dramatic, world-changing events rather than media-manipulated yawns.
But there is a yawning gap in timing between what he would love to happen tomorrow and what is still the case. Times, Sunday Times
the yawning congregation
John yawned and scratched his chin.
Just keep doing what you're doing and try not to yawn oops!
If you are part of the Big Five, XYZ is a just a big yawn.
At the edge of the reef, I had a clear memory from my day-dives of the yawning depths of the Pacific below me.
Because the dirty little secret is that most Americans still greet the MLS with a big yawn.
This Sally is nothing but a yawning cavity walking on hollow stilts," declared Nell, who "fussed" good-naturedly, just as her father did. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air
You have to stifle a yawn as you inhale its stultifying atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
Rather, cultivate an aura of benign but almost yawning familiarity (but don't snub her either).
It was a relief and rather an anticlimax when the yawning official stamped my passport without a single glance at my stuff. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
The 11-year-old made no effort to stifle a wide yawn as she rocked forward in her chair and stared at the ground. Times, Sunday Times
I blinked my eyes blearily and opened my mouth to yawn, I felt thick and slow.
As far as her continuing her fight to win ... yawn! Clinton op-ed: 'Why I Continue to Run'

How To Use Yawn In A Sentence

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