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Definition of yawn in English: yawnverb jɔːnjɔn 1no object Involuntarily open one's mouth wide and inhale deeply due to tiredness or boredom. 打呵欠，欠伸 he began yawning and looking at his watch 他开始打呵欠，并看了看手表。 Example sentencesExamples - He yawns, covering his mouth, and hears the sound of the television playing somewhere in the house.
- Stretching forth her sleepy limbs she yawns in tiredness.
- Tinara opened her mouth to reply, but she suddenly put a hand to her mouth and yawned.
- 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.
- He yawned and inhaled the dusty, musty air that he had become so familiar with over the last five years.
- I blinked my eyes blearily and opened my mouth to yawn, I felt thick and slow.
- I actually have a bit more to share if you haven't already started to yawn in boredom…
- He didn't look like he smiled that often, but when he opened his mouth to yawn; a set of pearly white teeth were exposed.
- I opened my mouth to yawn, but before I knew it, I was throwing up on the floor.
- As it hits the back of your mouth or throat try yawning, as this action will open up your throat.
- Once the fire was stable, he returned to his spot, yawned deeply, and went to sleep.
- Demetre yawned and opened his teary eyes, looking around and spotting Britney still asleep in his arms.
- The Chartreux cat stared belligerently at Sam, yawned and began licking a black paw.
- Alexis felt a compelling need to yawn but as she opened her mouth the arm tightened.
- He yawned, Jok opened his mouth to reply but closed it quickly, he knew he was going to shout and he didn't want Kassa to wake up.
- Harrieth woke up and rubbed the sleep dust from her eyes, she yawned deeply, throwing her arms out to the side.
- When young people see us, they either start yawning involuntarily or inhale our old people's smell and start retching.
- I yawned and opened the door before my roommate knocked it down.
- Seek yawned, stretching his mouth to an unusually large size and giving a dramatic sigh.
- Kurai says ‘I need a drink’ and then he yawns, covering his mouth with one hand.
Synonyms gaping, wide open, wide, cavernous, deep 2usually as adjective yawningBe wide open. 裂开，豁开 一个裂开大口的深沟。 Example sentencesExamples - Access is through two yawning front doors, or via rear - seat sliding doors.
- Which just goes to show the difference - nay, the yawning chasm!
- She would have to pass through great agony to become a part of the great yawning nothingness.
- Falling stock markets have caused yawning gaps to appear between the assets and liabilities of final salary pension schemes.
- Rather, cultivate an aura of benign but almost yawning familiarity (but don't snub her either).
- An image of two yawning voids behind amber glass flashed through her mind.
- Getting out to inspect, we discovered a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge, with two girders going across it.
- At last we reach the summit, where Alex shrinks back from the yawning chasm.
- We teetered on the edge of matchstick viaducts that bridged yawning chasms.
- In fact, it really just underlines the now yawning chasm between the old and new world approaches to wine.
- Wordlessly they walked the last few yards to the yawning chasm in the ground, their little fingers linked once more.
- The void between rich and poor is now a yawning chasm and home ownership is but a dream for most young couples.
- Does one plug on, rounding out characters, filling in the yawning chasms in the plot?
- The gap between rich and poor has not only widened over the past twenty years it has become a yawning chasm in some instances.
- When you've reached that great yawning chasm of despair and see no hope at all, then it's time to make that call.
- The game had been due to start at 3pm but, at that time, there were yawning expanses of empty seats in all four stands.
- Our once yawning current account deficit is now coming to resemble lockjaw.
- Every bend takes you higher while your breath is suspended looking at the yawning chasm below.
- It matters because it tells us of the yawning chasm between Labour's dreams and what happens when it tries to implement a policy.
- To be confronted by yawning gaps in the stands will prove an embarrassment and one Africa will not live down.
Synonyms gaping, wide open, wide, cavernous, deep large, huge, great, big rare chasmal
noun jɔːnjɔn 1A reflex act of opening one's mouth wide and inhaling deeply due to tiredness or boredom. 打呵欠，欠伸 he stretches and stifles a yawn Example sentencesExamples - Evie said, she put her hand over her mouth to stifle a yawn.
- I tried not to show my boredom, but my yawns were coming quicker and quicker.
- Until now, I would have defied anyone to be able to make a documentary on the Somme that didn't reduce the audience to tears, but they managed not just to leave us with dry eyes, but to replace them with yawns.
- It was an era when politics had passion and party political conventions could be dramatic, world-changing events rather than media-manipulated yawns.
- The transnational morality set can barely stifle their yawns.
- I don't even try to stifle my yawns while at the in-laws house.
- I like to watch late night TV (the only time good programs like 6 Feet Under, ER and arty documentaries are on) and judge my bedtime by the force of gravity and the frequency of my yawns.
- Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back.
- It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians.
- She is the most perfect creation in the world, the most innocent bundle of coos and yawns and mumbles, and my heart breaks every time she focuses on my face.
- At parties, it was the last thing I wanted to mention, since it was certain to bring yawns and glares of boredom from beer-holding peers.
- It's a sad day when 90 minutes of football is all about stifling the yawns.
- It's been a couple of weeks since I bought this one, and I'm sure mentioning it will have most people stifling yawns, but that's just tough!
- Rather than yawns of ‘we're bored’ the students engaged in lively debate with the Minister putting a myriad of questions to her ranging from the EU to the challenges of democracy.
- Hugh Bradley was in the pool recently and said the two boys had yawns as wide as a hippopotamus' mouth.
- But we are tired, and Mum mistakes our tiredness and stifled yawns for boredom.
- And, since the good jokes don't come until the final third, a lot of yawns will have to be stifled.
- The skeletal mouth opened in a wide yawn, a centipede unknown to Anthony sleeping delicately on his tongue.
- Sadie's heavy eyelids and swallow-the-earth yawns were entirely down to yet another interminable boredom barrage from Mr Brown.
- I spent this period of instruction trying to stifle yawns and resisting saying how old-hat this all seemed.
- 1.1informal in singular A thing that is considered boring or tedious.
〈非正式〉乏味的事 the film is just one big yawn Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- I heard from a relative of someone serving in Fallujah, who said that all the bases around there take mortar fire so frequently that it has become a big yawn for the troops.
- Put frankly, the whole thing was one big yawn which was mitigated only by the fact that it was a beautiful sunny day.
- If you are part of the Big Five, XYZ is a just a big yawn.
- I hope I'm wrong, but right now the whole issue is just one big yawn.
- How are you going to get big voter turnout when everybody seems to think these elections are a big yawn?
- The horses' reaction to all this was on the order of a yawn - no big deal.
- It happened 15 years ago and it's been either a big yawn or a big laugh ever since.
- The Punakawan parts, which had amusing dialog and action, saved the performance from turning into a big yawn.
- What Ellen MacArthur did is, to my mind, one big yawn.
- But the comedy is ghastly dull, the choreography fussy and boring - a yawn a minute, I thought sourly.
- The sheer Hip-ness of Evolution can feel like a bit of a yawn given the little risk of alienating such a loyal audience by pushing the envelope a touch.
- Because the dirty little secret is that most Americans still greet the MLS with a big yawn.
- It's not a big yawn or an exclusive affair, as most people might think.
- 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.
- So pausing only to wonder at this weird form of celebrity inflation, in which the words rise and interest disappears with a popping yawn, here is a final thought.
- Anyway, I ended up watching an amateur boxing match, big yawn.
- If like the rest of us you feel this year's Big Brother is a bit * yawn * compared to other years then join with us to keep the rebellious Dubliner in the house.
- Is Channel 4's new sleep deprivation game show a danger to health or just a big yawn?
- Technologically speaking, the last 100 years of handgun development have been one big yawn.
Derivativesadverbˈjɔːnɪŋliˈjɔnɪŋli Players go along, some happily, others yawningly - or they take control in the real world by turning the game off. Example sentencesExamples - Fate (and a yawningly indifferent public) taught this wannabe pop star a cruel lesson.
- When asked if the title race would be much closer than the yawningly easy successes of Celtic in the past two seasons, McLeish replied without hesitation.
- It is sometimes given grudgingly, unthinkingly, or yawningly.
- Still, it wasn't unusual for a typical pattern to arise, almost yawningly predictable.
- Rashly, Theresa accepts a second date with Tony at which the gulf between them becomes yawningly apparent.
- Much of Mr. Moore's Manichaeism will be yawningly familiar to anyone accustomed to the weird myopia of the far left these days.
- In a sense they were more honest as well, naturally inspired where Change of Living seems built upon a tasteful if yawningly predictable record collection.
- But who's to say that five minutes into a conversation with him, that I don't find him yawningly dull and he doesn't find me brain-numbingly boring?
- These are classic thriller plotlines, recycled time and again to what is often yawningly predictable effect.
- The running time is also yawningly self-indulgent at nearly 80 minutes.
- Its parade of sententious and yawningly vacuous postmodern artspeak can only serve to perpetuate the perception of the contemporary art world as a self-serving elite.
- The Piano was Hancock's first album as a solo pianist, and I'm sorry to say that for me, it echoes the ‘concept’ albums released by rock artists at the time, extending modest ideas to yawningly self-indulgent lengths.
- As ever, the building's the Star, the exhibits yawningly, unyieldingly tiresome.
- Generally, the fellows with the ‘credentials‘on CNN and Fox, especially the ‘military experts,‘alternate between belaboring the yawningly obvious and exhibiting partisanship.’
- Last year, the grass-root activists began the yawningly elongated process of selecting a prospective parliamentary candidate.
- Guys Gone Wild Producers of the yawningly popular Girls Gone Wild series come out with their first installments of a parallel series featuring guys who take it all off for the camera.
- For all they have been doing the extraordinary this season, Celtic rarely looked anything other than strictly, nay yawningly, ordinary in the first half yesterday.
OriginOld English geonian, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hiare and Greek khainein. Current noun senses date from the early 18th century. Rhymesadorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn Definition of yawn in US English: yawnverbyônjɔn [no object]1Involuntarily open one's mouth wide and inhale deeply due to tiredness or boredom. 打呵欠，欠伸 he began yawning and looking at his watch 他开始打呵欠，并看了看手表。 Example sentencesExamples - Stretching forth her sleepy limbs she yawns in tiredness.
- Demetre yawned and opened his teary eyes, looking around and spotting Britney still asleep in his arms.
- I blinked my eyes blearily and opened my mouth to yawn, I felt thick and slow.
- Tinara opened her mouth to reply, but she suddenly put a hand to her mouth and yawned.
- Harrieth woke up and rubbed the sleep dust from her eyes, she yawned deeply, throwing her arms out to the side.
- Kurai says ‘I need a drink’ and then he yawns, covering his mouth with one hand.
- He yawns, covering his mouth, and hears the sound of the television playing somewhere in the house.
- I opened my mouth to yawn, but before I knew it, I was throwing up on the floor.
- He yawned and inhaled the dusty, musty air that he had become so familiar with over the last five years.
- Alexis felt a compelling need to yawn but as she opened her mouth the arm tightened.
- I yawned and opened the door before my roommate knocked it down.
- I actually have a bit more to share if you haven't already started to yawn in boredom…
- As it hits the back of your mouth or throat try yawning, as this action will open up your throat.
- When young people see us, they either start yawning involuntarily or inhale our old people's smell and start retching.
- He yawned, Jok opened his mouth to reply but closed it quickly, he knew he was going to shout and he didn't want Kassa to wake up.
- Seek yawned, stretching his mouth to an unusually large size and giving a dramatic sigh.
- 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.
- Once the fire was stable, he returned to his spot, yawned deeply, and went to sleep.
- He didn't look like he smiled that often, but when he opened his mouth to yawn; a set of pearly white teeth were exposed.
- The Chartreux cat stared belligerently at Sam, yawned and began licking a black paw.
Synonyms gaping, wide open, wide, cavernous, deep - 1.1usually as adjective yawning Be wide open.
裂开，豁开 一个裂开大口的深沟。 Example sentencesExamples - It matters because it tells us of the yawning chasm between Labour's dreams and what happens when it tries to implement a policy.
- In fact, it really just underlines the now yawning chasm between the old and new world approaches to wine.
- Wordlessly they walked the last few yards to the yawning chasm in the ground, their little fingers linked once more.
- Getting out to inspect, we discovered a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge, with two girders going across it.
- Which just goes to show the difference - nay, the yawning chasm!
- Our once yawning current account deficit is now coming to resemble lockjaw.
- Access is through two yawning front doors, or via rear - seat sliding doors.
- She would have to pass through great agony to become a part of the great yawning nothingness.
- We teetered on the edge of matchstick viaducts that bridged yawning chasms.
- The game had been due to start at 3pm but, at that time, there were yawning expanses of empty seats in all four stands.
- The gap between rich and poor has not only widened over the past twenty years it has become a yawning chasm in some instances.
- The void between rich and poor is now a yawning chasm and home ownership is but a dream for most young couples.
- An image of two yawning voids behind amber glass flashed through her mind.
- Falling stock markets have caused yawning gaps to appear between the assets and liabilities of final salary pension schemes.
- Does one plug on, rounding out characters, filling in the yawning chasms in the plot?
- To be confronted by yawning gaps in the stands will prove an embarrassment and one Africa will not live down.
- Every bend takes you higher while your breath is suspended looking at the yawning chasm below.
- Rather, cultivate an aura of benign but almost yawning familiarity (but don't snub her either).
- When you've reached that great yawning chasm of despair and see no hope at all, then it's time to make that call.
- At last we reach the summit, where Alex shrinks back from the yawning chasm.
Synonyms gaping, wide open, wide, cavernous, deep
nounyônjɔn 1A reflex act of opening one's mouth wide and inhaling deeply due to tiredness or boredom. 打呵欠，欠伸 Example sentencesExamples - But we are tired, and Mum mistakes our tiredness and stifled yawns for boredom.
- The skeletal mouth opened in a wide yawn, a centipede unknown to Anthony sleeping delicately on his tongue.
- I spent this period of instruction trying to stifle yawns and resisting saying how old-hat this all seemed.
- The transnational morality set can barely stifle their yawns.
- And, since the good jokes don't come until the final third, a lot of yawns will have to be stifled.
- I don't even try to stifle my yawns while at the in-laws house.
- It was an era when politics had passion and party political conventions could be dramatic, world-changing events rather than media-manipulated yawns.
- Until now, I would have defied anyone to be able to make a documentary on the Somme that didn't reduce the audience to tears, but they managed not just to leave us with dry eyes, but to replace them with yawns.
- I tried not to show my boredom, but my yawns were coming quicker and quicker.
- Hugh Bradley was in the pool recently and said the two boys had yawns as wide as a hippopotamus' mouth.
- I like to watch late night TV (the only time good programs like 6 Feet Under, ER and arty documentaries are on) and judge my bedtime by the force of gravity and the frequency of my yawns.
- It's a sad day when 90 minutes of football is all about stifling the yawns.
- It's been a couple of weeks since I bought this one, and I'm sure mentioning it will have most people stifling yawns, but that's just tough!
- She is the most perfect creation in the world, the most innocent bundle of coos and yawns and mumbles, and my heart breaks every time she focuses on my face.
- Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back.
- Rather than yawns of ‘we're bored’ the students engaged in lively debate with the Minister putting a myriad of questions to her ranging from the EU to the challenges of democracy.
- Evie said, she put her hand over her mouth to stifle a yawn.
- It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians.
- Sadie's heavy eyelids and swallow-the-earth yawns were entirely down to yet another interminable boredom barrage from Mr Brown.
- At parties, it was the last thing I wanted to mention, since it was certain to bring yawns and glares of boredom from beer-holding peers.
- 1.1informal A thing that is considered boring or tedious.
〈非正式〉乏味的事 the awards show was a four-hour yawn Example sentencesExamples - Because the dirty little secret is that most Americans still greet the MLS with a big yawn.
- Anyway, I ended up watching an amateur boxing match, big yawn.
- It happened 15 years ago and it's been either a big yawn or a big laugh ever since.
- Technologically speaking, the last 100 years of handgun development have been one big yawn.
- So pausing only to wonder at this weird form of celebrity inflation, in which the words rise and interest disappears with a popping yawn, here is a final thought.
- Put frankly, the whole thing was one big yawn which was mitigated only by the fact that it was a beautiful sunny day.
- I hope I'm wrong, but right now the whole issue is just one big yawn.
- If like the rest of us you feel this year's Big Brother is a bit * yawn * compared to other years then join with us to keep the rebellious Dubliner in the house.
- If you are part of the Big Five, XYZ is a just a big yawn.
- Is Channel 4's new sleep deprivation game show a danger to health or just a big yawn?
- The horses' reaction to all this was on the order of a yawn - no big deal.
- The Punakawan parts, which had amusing dialog and action, saved the performance from turning into a big yawn.
- But the comedy is ghastly dull, the choreography fussy and boring - a yawn a minute, I thought sourly.
- The sheer Hip-ness of Evolution can feel like a bit of a yawn given the little risk of alienating such a loyal audience by pushing the envelope a touch.
- I heard from a relative of someone serving in Fallujah, who said that all the bases around there take mortar fire so frequently that it has become a big yawn for the troops.
- What Ellen MacArthur did is, to my mind, one big yawn.
- It's not a big yawn or an exclusive affair, as most people might think.
- How are you going to get big voter turnout when everybody seems to think these elections are a big yawn?
- 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.
- 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.
OriginOld English geonian, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin hiare and Greek khainein. Current noun senses date from the early 18th century. |