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• When the cat woke up, it yawned and stretched.From the entry stretch
• He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.From the entry tardy
• The spring scrimmage, usually a yawn of an afterthought at Colorado, was packed.2024 October 4, John Branch, “What Does College Football Have to Do With College?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry scrimmage
• When he had finished, Eve yawned and looked boreder than ever.2019, Oliver Herford, Neither Here Nor There. From the entry boreder
• They can even hear me yawn, what with these paper walls.2013 October 18, Marcia Munson, Judith Stelboum, The Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex…. From the entry paper wall
• After a good nigh's sleep Billy had a bushman's breakfast of a yawn and a look around.2013, Raymond Whiteside, The Writings of The Intellectual Ocker, page 162. From the entry bushman's breakfast
• At the psychological level, the yawn has been associated with boredom at least since Roman times.2010 March 26, Wolter Seuntjens, “The Hidden Sexuality of the Yawn and the Future of Chasmology”, in Olivier Walusinski, editor, The…. From the entry chasmology
• She yawned a fangful yawn, stretched her claws and sat up.1982, David Hazard, “The Tale of a Bird”, in Stories, Songs, and Poems from The Peaceable Kingdom, page 26. From the entry fangful
• He got up, yawned, and said, «Well, another day another dollar, good night,» and disappeared upstairs.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 3, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4. From the entry another day, another dollar
• As she peered at me from semiglazed eyes, her yawn was interrupted by a rich giggle.1957, Welbourn Kelley, Alabama empire, page 339. From the entry semiglazed
• They waited expectantly while he directed a ruminative yawn toward the white smiling moon.1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 5, in The Beautiful and Damned, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2011. From the entry ruminative
• From the mouth it yawned emitting a foul bear-like growl.probably 2018, Rogue Planet Press, Lovecraftiana: Halloween 2018, page 33. From the entry octopodic
• If the phrase "family-friendly festival" induces a series of yawns and "mehs" from you and yours, consider the gauntlet thrown.2017 July 29, Stephanie Smittle, “Itchy-O to close Hot Water Hills Festival”, in Arkansas Times. From the entry mehs
• A “skinbyrd” girlfriend watched, yawned, batted a bee away.2013, David McConnell, American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men. From the entry skinbyrd
• He blinked at us, yawned oxishly, and went out again.2009, Adam Roberts, chapter 9, in Yellow Blue Tibia, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry oxishly
• How you feeling, anyway'? ¶ I suppressed a yawn.2002, Quintin Jardine, chapter 23, in Poisoned Cherries, Headline Publishing. From the entry rubber ducked
• A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.1999, Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. From the entry crump
• After supper, surfeited with the subject, she yawned.1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2, page 210. From the entry surfeit
• People cleared their throats, tried to choke down yawns.1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section…. From the entry shoot one's cuffs
• "Time to hit the hay," Dave yawned.1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in The Sheriff's Son. From the entry hit the hay
• “M’tired,” Nick said, and yawned again.2015, Matthew J. Metzger, chapter 11, in The Suicidal Peanut, Glen Allen, Va.: JMS Books, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry m'
• Magnum yawned at me, emitting a distinct graham crackery smell (he yawns when something is stuck in his teeth) and went back to grazing, content with his treat theft.1995 September 25, Sheryl White, “Attributing Human Vices to Horses”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Nov 2023. From the entry graham crackery
• The Hall of Spiders yawned and shrank, the threads deceiving the eye, the distances, shifting, surging forward or crumbling away, to the illusory reflectings of the moon.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry reflecting
• We are far more apt to yawn than to weep as we make our way through this series of loosely connected incidents, of unmotivated actions, of contrived metings-out of justice.1964, William K. Bottorff, Twayne's United States Authors Series, volume 56, page 72. From the entry meting

Meaning of yawn

1. verb To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
2. verb To say while yawning.
3. verb To present a wide opening; gape.

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Questions about yawn in a sentence

How do you use yawn in a sentence?

Yawn is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.”

What is a short sentence with yawn?

“to yawn for fat livings”

What does yawn mean?

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