How To Use Yawning In A Sentence
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Everyone I've seen in London today has got bleary eyes, and is yawning.
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It is claimed, probably incorrectly, that in social environments yawning and weariness are due to an accumulation of carbon dioxide.
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You will be able to see where the yawning gaps are up ahead.
Life Without Work
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Do you gaze glassy-eyed at the television, and find yourself yawning at the radio news?
Times, Sunday Times
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I was waiting in the twilight semi-darkness, yawning, eyes half closed, and basically looking like a zombie.
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I can't stop yawning - I must be tired.
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But there is a yawning gap in timing between what he would love to happen tomorrow and what is still the case.
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That fanned fears that decisive action may be less likely to address the yawning budget deficit.
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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.
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Employers have paid 44 billion in contributions in the past three years in an attempt to narrow their yawning deficits, but to little avail.
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Yawning and headache are the most common adverse reactions.
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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
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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
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The cracks in your relationship are yawning too wide.
The Sun
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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.
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‘Oh I'm sure I'll get over it one day,’ said Tom, stretching out like a cat and yawning widely.
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The page stirred from his pallet on the hearth and poked the fire back to life, then padded over, yawning, with a candle.
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Yawning ['jni ] and headache are the most common adverse reactions.
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A yawning man is lying on a lawn in the dawn.
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It matters because it tells us of the yawning chasm between Labour's dreams and what happens when it tries to implement a policy.
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She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.
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Equality experts also argue that it could help close the yawning pay gap between men and women.
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At last we reach the summit, where Alex shrinks back from the yawning chasm.
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And beware anyone caught yawning in the open air.
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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.
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I found myself alone, standing at the entrance to a yawning limestone cavern, dazzled by dawning sunlight.
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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.
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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.
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Yawning, he lifted his arm and squinted at the luminescent numbers of his watch.
CORMORANT
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When you've reached that great yawning chasm of despair and see no hope at all, then it's time to make that call.
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A scrawny dog lay in the doorway of a hut, yawning widely.
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This yawning gulf between their reality and ours is a very modern concern.
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That fanned fears that decisive action may be less likely to address the yawning budget deficit.
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This generation gap between older and younger men is an increasingly yawning chasm.
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And as always, there is a yawning chasm between their accounts of what happened and what others say took place.
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Yawning, the teenage girl reached to scratch her neck, and felt the marks left there on her vein.
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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.
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I felt so sleepy I couldn't stop yawning.
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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.
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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
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There is and always has been a yawning gap at the budget end of the amplifier market.
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We couldn't help yawning during the speech.
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Every bend takes you higher while your breath is suspended looking at the yawning chasm below.
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In fact, it really just underlines the now yawning chasm between the old and new world approaches to wine.
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Getting out to inspect, we discovered a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge, with two girders going across it.
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But there is a yawning gap in timing between what he would love to happen tomorrow and what is still the case.
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Tom was yawning sleepily, and Lily was already napping peacefully on his skinny shoulder.
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Why Clinton administration officials have opened such a yawning credibility gap is hard to say.
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There exists nowadays a yawning gap between fashion and style.
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Falling stock markets have caused yawning gaps to appear between the assets and liabilities of final salary pension schemes.
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Wordlessly they walked the last few yards to the yawning chasm in the ground, their little fingers linked once more.
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Yawning, I pad over to my desk and switch on the lamp.
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There's no yawning chasm of difference.
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But there is a yawning gap in timing between what he would love to happen tomorrow and what is still the case.
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the yawning congregation
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At the edge of the reef, I had a clear memory from my day-dives of the yawning depths of the Pacific below me.
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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
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Rather, cultivate an aura of benign but almost yawning familiarity (but don't snub her either).
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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
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A yawning man is lying on a lawn in the dawn.
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Yawning, she walked over to the oak dressing table and ran her brush through her knotted red hair.
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The game had been due to start at 3pm but, at that time, there were yawning expanses of empty seats in all four stands.
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She would have to pass through great agony to become a part of the great yawning nothingness.
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No wonder another side-effect of these drugs is yawning.
The Sun
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The cracks in your relationship are yawning too wide.
The Sun
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He stretched his arms yawning exposing his fangs for a brief second before they vanished beneath his lips.
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And in that respect there's a yawning gap in average British lives.
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One of those two points, the narrow yet yawning gap that separated the teams at the end, was scored by centre-forward Brian O'Meara, and he too paid fulsome tribute to the valiant vanquished.
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The chief hotel at Sherton – Abbas was an old stone-fronted inn with a yawning arch, under which vehicles were driven by stooping coachmen to back premises of wonderful commodiousness.
The Woodlanders
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There was a yawning disconnect between the seamlessness of the playing and its emotional canvas.
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The yawning gap behind one of the goals is a legacy of the proposal to build a fourth stand to meet Premierleague criteria last season.
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At the dawn the lawn the yawning drowned man began to frown.
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A torchbeam played into the cavernous yawning chasms of cargo holds would shatter like an exploding chandelier, while silver fry splintered and splashed off into the deeper gloom.
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And slowly, yawning and stretching, the man awoke.
The Railway Children
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The pain is aggravated by eating, gum chewing, teeth clenching, or yawning.
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There would be a fleeting glimpse of the three men flinging water in frantic haste, when she would topple over and fall into the yawning valley, bow down and showing her full inside length to the stern upreared almost directly above the bow.
Chapter 17
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We couldn't help yawning during the speech.
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Access is through two yawning front doors, or via rear - seat sliding doors.
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I spotted a man in his underpants on the fifth floor, scratching himself and yawning.
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In response to a vague stirring of something within him -- a thing which might have been the primitive underman yawning and stretching to its awakening -- he had been trying in the window-facing intervals to reconstruct the passing panorama of mountain and plain upon the recollections of his boyhood.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
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There's a yawning chasm between their user-experience of partially-universal machines and universal machines.
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All of that is trivial, compared to the yawning black hole of unfunded pension liabilities.
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This yawning chasm between intent and action is because we are busy.
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To be confronted by yawning gaps in the stands will prove an embarrassment and one Africa will not live down.
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Layla rolled over and sat up, yawning so wide David could distinctly make out her dangling uvula.
DO NO HARM
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And slowly, yawning and stretching, the man awoke.
The Railway Children
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I've noticed that whenever someone sits on the comfy couch in the tea room they start yawning and feel sleepy.
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But soon he will be gone, and then the yawning chasm will open up once more.
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Now the first ever study to report that human yawns induce yawning in dogs is published today in the journal Biology Letters by a team led by Dr Atsushi Senju of Birkbeck College, University of London.
Dogs ‘May Be Able To Read Their Owner’s Minds’ | Disinformation
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The world could run out of space to store oil next year as a yawning global supply glut triggers warnings of a shortage of spare capacity.
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He goes on to describe this notion of chaos as ‘that yawning abyss of formlessness from which all escaped’.
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Certain medications, including SSRI antidepressants such as citalopram (Celexa and generic) and fluoxetine (Prozac and generic), can cause excessive yawning as a side effect.
Q&A: What's causing my constant yawning?
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It's a bumpy, slow ride, and the visitor won't forget the final stretch, when the distance between the bus 'wheels and a great, yawning abyss is a matter of inches.
Real de Catorce: an outpost of progress
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I spotted a man in his underpants on the fifth floor, scratching himself and yawning.
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Does one plug on, rounding out characters, filling in the yawning chasms in the plot?
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All of that is trivial, compared to the yawning black hole of unfunded pension liabilities.
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She had black rings around her eyes, and was yawning.
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Her eyes were a pale red, her body seemed withered and drawn out, and she was constantly yawning.
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As soon as I land into a boutique or department store I am struck down with a bout of excessive yawning and excruciating boredom.
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I can't stop yawning - I must be tired.
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But jealous bullies made his life hell, calling him a ‘scab’ and a ‘traitor’ and yawning if he answered questions right and clapping if he got them wrong.
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On the east, there are the blank backsides of the residence and conference center and the yawning entrance to the underground parking garage.
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Actually he really is better then the average guy when we go shopping, well unless it takes too long because then he will start yawning very often and look all miserable and mopy.
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Cody was fully dressed, but his hair was tousled, and he was yawning.
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Beyond the yawning valley reared a jagged skyline dominated by the massive peaks of Tirich Mir and Buni Zom.
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I cannot speak with authority about other branches of government but I can say that the most yawning gaps are in the key areas of policing and security.
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Which just goes to show the difference - nay, the yawning chasm!
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She shrugged, and then rolled off to her side, yawning and falling asleep.
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Snapping drum, twinkling stars, woozy guitar, and woozier vocals wobble their way towards a yawning great black hole at the worst time.
Nothing But Green Lights
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They were of course, all mellow and happy, stretching and yawning in the sunshine.
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This is the yawning chasm she thinks Whistles can fill.
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The world could run out of space to store oil next year as a yawning global supply glut triggers warnings of a shortage of spare capacity.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The next thing I know, I'm yawning to myself, and burrowing underneath my covers, rubbing my eyes as I slowly awaken.
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At the dawn the lawn the yawning drowned man began to frown.
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I spotted a man in his underpants on the fifth floor, scratching himself and yawning.
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Yawning freely, he filled the electric kettle with water and switched it on.
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It didn't feel like the terrible yawning gulf that it is now.
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And in that respect there's a yawning gap in average British lives.
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The result, when successful, is a welcome bridging of the sometimes yawning abyss between writer and critic.
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At seven I was still yawning and stretching, sitting on the spindly little chair in our entryway, my forehead leaning against the window view the front yard.
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Equality experts also argue that it could help close the yawning pay gap between men and women.
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Basic chores done, I gave up and went to sit in the kitchen, where I slumped in my chair, yawning and nodding.
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This yawning chasm between intent and action is because we are busy.
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She gave his arm a squeeze and nuzzled up against him, yawning as she did so.
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To the near lips of each crater a sap ran out from the front line, so that merely the great yawning hole lay between the saphead and the corresponding abode of the Germans on the other lip.
No Man's Land
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You will be able to see where the yawning gaps are up ahead.
Life Without Work
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sparrowgrass," so handy to fill the black and yawning chasms of summer fireplaces and furnish green for "boquets.
Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It
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Bring on the Exodus.5 Girl dislocates mouth by yawningI'm scared to laugh.6 Snooki from Jersey Shore enters WWEAh, I miss those Saturday nights in Clapham Junction.7 When impounding a car goes badGood on her, I say.8 Farmville comes to life in New YorkApparently 62 million people around the world play Farmville.
Viral Video Chart: Lucky car escape, zookeeper defies death, Google Exodus
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Not once did she ask if he knew where they were going; and now, with a nettle laced gully yawning out past any shadowed umbra before them, that suddenly appeared very naive.
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Bran, [423] poor fellow, lies yawning at my feet, and cannot think what is become of the daily scamper, which is all his master's inability affords him.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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But once the lights dimmed, it was an appreciative audience that clapped through the show including those who had been yawning because of the delay.
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However, when the film's producer does spend three minutes on some romantic mushy angle of the story, this should not be the cue for yawning, snoring or standing up and stretching one's legs.
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A wheat fungus in Ukraine, a class-action defeat, a movie that bombs, a CEO ouster, a bad quarter: whenever I think I have a bead on the future, the financial chattering class tells me that the institutional investors, private wealth managers and arbitrageurs have been yawning about that news for months.
Marty Kaplan: Who's Afraid of a Countdown Clock?
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Man has no hope for salvation, only a chance for dignity, gained by absurdly carrying on in the face of the yawning maw of the meaningless abyss.
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the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop
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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
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a yawning abyss
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Not even the yawning chasms in the road caused by freeze-thaw action during the recent cold spell can upset it.
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It didn't feel like the terrible yawning gulf that it is now.
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He stood yawning, his pyjama jacket gaping open.
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This yawning gulf between their reality and ours is a very modern concern.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faon leaned back on the couch, yawning and stretching his arms above his head.
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Vines with yawning purple flowers clung to the walls, and thick, stumpy trees guarded the back of the house.
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the yawning mine shaft
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When young people see us, they either start yawning involuntarily or inhale our old people's smell and start retching.
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That's when I saw him: my huge mutt stretching and yawning at such a ridiculous angle that his woof sounded like ‘boo.’
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Everybody got out, yawning, Thaddeus still, out of habit, carrying his rifle slung over his shoulder.
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Making my hair turn gray were scenes of daredevils leaping across yawning gorges, hanging by one hand and an axe over the abyss.
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The frequency and intensity of yawning began to decrease 5 days after fluoxetine discontinuation.
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As soon as they entered the town, Pinocchio noticed that all the streets were filled with hairless dogs, yawning from hunger; with sheared sheep, trembling with cold; with combless chickens, begging for a grain of wheat; with large butterflies, unable to use their wings because they had sold all their lovely colors; with tailless peacocks, ashamed to show themselves; and with bedraggled pheasants, scuttling away hurriedly, grieving for their bright feathers of gold and silver, lost to them forever.
Adventures of Pinocchio
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Had they but known it, it might all have been seen, holy of holies, head-wagging priest, idle yawning assistant, with legs stretched out, half asleep, mumblement, jumblement and all, from a little back window in a passage opening from that Calvary gallery upstairs.
The Bertrams
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Animism is, as already explained, a pitfall which is always yawning before us and into which we are sure to plunge unless we are ever watchful.
The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
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Knowing you have six months ahead of you turns the yawning chasm of future time into something much more manageable and for which you can plan.
Life Without Work
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He stood, not at attention but in the uniform of the day—FBI raid jacket over shirt and tie, black cargo pants bloused into black tactical boots, a radio unit in his hand wired to his ear, along a street, doing nothing but yawning and watching.
Dead Zero
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Pale settles down in the covers, yawning slightly as she curls up in a fetal position, resting her eyes.
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Love him ... and yes, that scared/undecisive president bit had me yawning from the get go, but however they get Dennis Haysbert back is great.
The following was written between 1&2am
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This generation gap between older and younger men is an increasingly yawning chasm.
Times, Sunday Times
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This generation gap between older and younger men is an increasingly yawning chasm.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a yawning gap between rich and poor.
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He walked the edge of a yawning hole tearing a rent across the earth.
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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
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In the work made of the Mollusk's cast-off clothing, I find encrusted the spindle shell of the Clausilium, the key shell of the pupa, the spiral of the smaller Helix, the yawning volute of the Vitrina, or glass snail, the turret shell of the Bulimus
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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Some policymakers have warned that Britain may require a fresh devaluation of sterling to close the yawning gap in its balance of payments.
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On this collection Sarah Vaughan sounds like she's phoning it in - you can almost hear her yawning.
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A yawning budget deficit this year will require further generosity.
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Yet another speech about simplifying tax would have left journalists yawning.
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Chad spent most of his time yawning and eyeing his brother's porridge distrustfully while eating his own cereal.
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What Karnezis is good at - no, what he's outstanding at - is evoking the yawning despair and accidie that crawl over his characters.
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We teetered on the edge of matchstick viaducts that bridged yawning chasms.
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Their limbs stretch out, yawning and dipping into spirals, leans and lifts.
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The resulting democratic deficit is yawning.
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In the meantime, where is the idea that addresses the biggest flaw - the yawning chasm between four clubs and the rest?
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Our once yawning current account deficit is now coming to resemble lockjaw.
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She asked me so many things, about magic and vampires until we both were yawning in a way that my grandmother would have called unladylike.
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a yawning congregation
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Do I not remember how a rash voyager was nearly swept off the Asia's slippery deck in a storm, when a sudden lurch flung him to cling to the side rail of a then unnetted bulwark, swinging him back again by another lurch right over the yawning waves ” like an acrobat?
My Life as an Author
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There was no looking at watches, no stifled yawning, no uneasy change of position, no watching the clock; strangers visiting the chapel listened, at first, from real interest, with a feeling that by-and-by they would relapse into their usual listlessness, but before they had time to _relapse_, behold the sermon was done.
The Old Stone House
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The days are yawning in view of the years struggling to suspire
Utter the long
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And beware anyone caught yawning in the open air.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the water is low and the wind favourable, they will be treated to a magnificent view of the falls and the yawning abyss below the Zambezi Bridge.
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The void between rich and poor is now a yawning chasm and home ownership is but a dream for most young couples.
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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
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As it hits the back of your mouth or throat try yawning, as this action will open up your throat.
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I was waiting in the twilight semi-darkness, yawning, eyes half closed, and basically looking like a zombie.
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An image of two yawning voids behind amber glass flashed through her mind.
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The resulting democratic deficit is yawning.
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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
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That fanned fears that decisive action may be less likely to address the yawning budget deficit.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the dawn the lawn the yawning drowned man began to frown.
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A fall into the yawning gap between the two CCDs (almost a millimetre wide!) would expose me to the - 120C temperature deeper inside this cryostat, killing me instantly as my suit failed.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The gap between rich and poor has not only widened over the past twenty years it has become a yawning chasm in some instances.
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There exists nowadays a yawning gap between fashion and style.
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This yawning chasm between intent and action is because we are busy.
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