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yawning
[ yaw-ning ]
adjective
- being or standing wide open; gaping:
the yawning mouth of a cave.
- indicating by yawns one's weariness or indifference:
The lecturer was oblivious to his yawning audience.
Other Word Forms
- ⲹɲiԲ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
I notice two guests, both with their eyes closed, yawning as Cowboy rubs his muzzle along the fence.
It’s fun to read, for sure, but there’s also a yawning pit of despair sitting beneath the narrator’s alternating tones of glib humor and seething rage.
Moments later, things got a little odd as Jason put the headphones on his yawning daughter and asked Travis what he wanted to say to Finn.
And if you go, is the employee at checkout yawning because of fatigue or the bubonic plague?
The US has filled the yawning gaps in European defence, left by years of chronic under-investment after the end of the Cold War.
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