Word Finder - yawning

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To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

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I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.

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To say while yawning.

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To present a wide opening.

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Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.

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To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.

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To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.

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to yawn for fat livings

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The action of the verb yawn.

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That yawns or yawn.

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yawning commuters

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Wide open.

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a yawning chasm;  the shark's yawning jaws

Stretching his arms and yawning, he leaned forward to rise.

There were yawning gaps in their ranks.

Gabriel waited in front of the yawning portal.

Beyond its yawning mouth, she saw what looked like yellow doorways glowing.

He won't come here again, remarked the old soldier, yawning.

The rocking motion of the train soon had its passengers yawning loudly.

There is little short of five years left during which to bridge what is a yawning gap.

We entered into the yawning mouth of the cave.

A yawning hole was all that was to be seen.

Because many primary and secondary schools had managed to close the gap, or at least to stop it yawning so widely.

Infants are most easily awakened during this phase of sleep that is accompanied by yawning, squirming, and quiet vocalizations.

Over the dusty hood, the yawning valley beckoned, and then... the sound of metal grinding against rock.

A stir of warm magic, and she opened her eyes, almost screaming again at the cave yawning open in front of her.

The room consisted of a massive bed with black bedding and white pillows, a wardrobe and trunks, and yawning windows to the sky that light never touched.

Mrs. Lincoln hopped up, stretching her lan­guid body and yawning, as if wondering why these two idiots were keeping such late hours.

The view was spectacular but neither could appreciate it next to the yawning opening of the Lucky Pup mine.

These can include throbbing headaches, fatigue, drowsiness, yawning, irritability, restlessness, vomiting, or runny nose.

He's constantly yawning, and his stomach features a sleeping crescent moon.

We are faced with the yawning psychological abyss of patricide.

The same crack extended below in the form of a yawning chasm, five or six feet wide.

On the Middle East a difference in emphasis has become a yawning gulf.

With the goal yawning Smith's tired legs could only scuff the ball toward the line allowing Manton to clear.

If you see someone yawning, you will probably yawn.

The little man, having had a good sleep, felt rested and refreshed, and looking through the glass partition of the room he saw Zeb sitting up on his bench and yawning.

Kutuzov still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes.

With the goal yawning Smith 's tired legs could only scuff the ball toward the line allowing Manton to clear.

Half way up the steep was a yawning cave, black as night beyond the point where the rainbow rays of the colored suns reached into it.

So a party of soldiers led him up into the mountain and placed him on the edge of the yawning hole in the rocks.

There were rows of grey chairs and several white benches in the rear, a handful of tables next to yawning windows, and a wall of what looked like constellation maps.

He led them through the maze until they emerged into a yawning cave lit by lanterns then continued into another set of halls.

Thus the " lazy yawning drone," as Shakespeare puts it, has a short shrift when his usefulness to the community is ended.