yawning

Example Sentences

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“There’s this lovely old armchair in the sitting room,” John says, yawning.

From Literature

Despite the yawning hole, Mamdani said he plans to present a balanced preliminary budget by pursuing savings and looking for inefficiencies without cutting any programs that benefit the working class.

From The Wall Street Journal

But after I’m done, I still have that yawning emptiness inside of me.

From Literature

I expected frustration in that yawning gap between memory and present ability, but instead, it was exhilarating.

From Salon

Nothing much happens, until the segment’s finale introduces a twist that suggests the yawning chasm between what we think we know about our parents and what the truth of their lives is.

From Los Angeles Times