yawn
Example Sentences
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Orion barked as if in agreement, and as excited as they were, Danny and Glory both stifled deep yawns.
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Two thumps of Rufus’s tail and a bored yawn from Lulu, though, didn’t quiet that feeling down at all.
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He blinked and yawned and wiggled and wet his diapers a little more, and waited.
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Eyes closed, he opened his mouth in a yawn, his tiny pink tongue arching out.
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That explosion of tomato and garlic, the ooze of cheese, it erased the smell of bleach that had scorched his nostrils; it filled up the hollow emptiness that yawned in his belly.
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