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How to use yawn in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Faking an elaborate yawn, I sneak a glance over my shoulder just in time to see her naked back as she leaves.
I stifled a yawn as Rheena came rushing towards me, tying her long brown hair in a bun, similar to mine.
Technologically speaking, the last 100 years of handgun development have been one big yawn.
Is Channel 4's new sleep deprivation game show a danger to health or just a big yawn?
People will be looking for the sums and despite the eighty or so people last night, many think that the whole thing is a big yawn.
Because the dirty little secret is that most Americans still greet the MLS with a big yawn.
Violet jabbed her stick at the cue and sunk the 8 in the middle of another, longer yawn.
At that moment, Anne let out a huge yawn, and Lady Catherine looked at her warily.
My interest quickly wavered from the conversation at hand and with a soft yawn I let my gaze fall back onto the printed words of the book.
We spent a while just watching them eat, scratch, yawn, stretch and go about their business.
You place your hand on his forehead, thinking Napoleon is going to look awful silly windmilling his arms while you yawn safely out of reach.
With a yawn that shook the building to its foundations, the woman pointed down a large corridor to yet another pair of double doors.
Come ten o'clock in the evening we've generally begun to stretch and yawn, and by ten thirty the house is quiet except for gentle snoring.
Alexis felt a compelling need to yawn but as she opened her mouth the arm tightened.
I stifled a yawn as I fumbled with the key, finally sticking it in correctly and turning the lock.
Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back.
The skeletal mouth opened in a wide yawn, a centipede unknown to Anthony sleeping delicately on his tongue.
Whatever it is I find it a relief to know you can be in your 40's and not turn into a boring middleaged yawn.
Rubbing her blue eyes, Nanashi finally rolled off her futon, letting a deep yawn escape as she did.
Put frankly, the whole thing was one big yawn which was mitigated only by the fact that it was a beautiful sunny day.
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It was only half-past ten when she forced a yawn and asked him to get her a taxi.
And for many a cause for which men have suffered and died, posterity has but a yawn.
It was a teeny-weeny yawn that didn't seem to know just what to do about it.
Even as the Oriental he must be handled guilefully, and it was with a guileful yawn that I dismissed the subject.
Mona, raising her hand to her lips, suppresses valiantly a yawn.
She opted to let her originally tied-back hair down, kick back in her seat and yawn while an equally bored-looking West stared glumly ahead.
Madame de Dangeau will challenge me, with a yawn, to a game of backgammon.
Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans.
So does his faultfinding and rather weary flashbacks to his past as an ambitious young man who, yawn, pulled his socks up and got on with it.
Presently the tinker came to himself with a prodigious yawn, and reached at once for another drink.
When his assumed name had been repeated several times, Noah rubbed his eyes, and, giving a heavy yawn, looked sleepily about him.
They passed a frowzy chambermaid, who stared at them with a yawn.
She sprawled back, resignedly, in her chair, smothering a yawn.
The sword-bearer leaned back on his bale of fur with a long-drawn yawn.
We lightly debate, we hesitate, we yawn, unconscious of the brink.
Whereupon the other world would vanish and the real world come into his eyes, and he would get up and yawn and stretch as though he had been asleep.
Thus was he worming his way behind the guard when the latter straightened up, opened his cavernous mouth in a wide yawn, and stretched his arms above his head.
They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn.
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