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Example sentences for: yawning

How can you use “yawning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The culture's yawning need to celebrate such past events has meant, says a Wall Street Journal front-page feature, redefining "past events" to include things that aren't really either.
Grinning, yawning, frowning, meditating, and leering, each one is different.
A more serious semantic problem is the ambiguity regarding paddle tennis and platform tennis . Here there is a yawning gulf of misunderstanding between the aficionados, who insist on a precise distinction, and the thousands on the fringes who sloppily apply the term paddle tennis to both sports.
A yawning gap in the lineup of military officers; a face that failed to match the body attached to it; a face whose shading did not match that of the faces on either side; an elbow marooned in space, bereft of other body parts--such things could just pass for evidence of ineptitude.