Yawning Sentence Examples

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

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  • There were yawning gaps in their ranks.

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  • Gabriel waited in front of the yawning portal.

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

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

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

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

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  • We entered into the yawning mouth of the cave.

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  • A yawning hole was all that was to be seen.

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

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

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

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

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

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  • 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.

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

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

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

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  • We are faced with the yawning psychological abyss of patricide.

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

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

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

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  • If you see someone yawning, you will probably yawn.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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

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

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