Get to know Yawn better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like yawning or gape.
Yawn meaning
- To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
- To say while yawning.
- To present a wide opening; gape.
Synonyms of Yawn
Using Yawn
- The main meaning on this page is: To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. | To say while yawning. | To present a wide opening; gape.
- Useful related words include: yawning, gape, suspire, respire.
- In the example corpus, yawn often appears in combinations such as: sandy yawn, yawn from, to yawn.
Context around Yawn
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yawn
- In this selection, "yawn" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sandy, collective, loud, kit, give and irobot stand out and add context to how "yawn" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a collective yawn from golf and a giant yawn. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yawn" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yawn
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Yawn …. give us a break PIP. (6 words)
The YAWN kit 01 includes three products. (7 words)
The public will either laugh or yawn. (7 words)
If you were wondering what the most expensive book sold at auction is, it is the Codex Leicester, a collection of handwritten notes and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci that sold in 1994 for $30.8 million to, yawn, Bill Gates. (41 words)
The corruption etc of government is dragging this country downwards and screwing us all, literally and metaphorically, so we should just stifle a yawn turn the TV over to watch a US detective story with a dog as the co-star? (41 words)
Brown had two entries in human-interest photography: one of Canadian Elementary School student Kason Richardson’s yawn on the first day of school; and another of Samantha Schafer, all decked out for Cruise Night on Main Street. (38 words)
The corruption etc of government is dragging this country downwards and screwing us all, literally and metaphorically, so we should just stifle a yawn turn the TV over to watch a US detective story with a dog as the co-star? (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Captain Sandy Yawn from Below Deck Med used Instagram Stories to express her thoughts that were all about giving Captain Jason and Aesha mad respect.
It is said that if you see another person yawning, you are six times more likely to yawn as well.
Fast forward a quarter century, and the EU seems to have greeted the FPÖ win with a yawn — before carrying on with business as usual.
He stifles a yawn, as if to hammer home the point.
So, with Woods and Mickelson out of the mix, anyone the PGA of America was going to trot out as the next captain was going to be met with a collective yawn from golf fans.
The YAWN kit 01 includes three products.
Yawn …. give us a break PIP.
Great, but also—yawn. iRobot has been teasing this stuff since it introduced mapping in 2018.
If you were wondering what the most expensive book sold at auction is, it is the Codex Leicester, a collection of handwritten notes and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci that sold in 1994 for $30.8 million to, yawn, Bill Gates.
The corruption etc of government is dragging this country downwards and screwing us all, literally and metaphorically, so we should just stifle a yawn turn the TV over to watch a US detective story with a dog as the co-star?
The public will either laugh or yawn.
Yawn gave the person a straightforward reply.
Brown had two entries in human-interest photography: one of Canadian Elementary School student Kason Richardson’s yawn on the first day of school; and another of Samantha Schafer, all decked out for Cruise Night on Main Street.
That sound is the loud yawn you heard after, maybe, getting halfway through the Democratic debate and then making up your mind to, instead, watch the Nats make it to the World Series for the first time.
While Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s been vehemently denouncing revocation of Kashmir’s special status, insisting he’ll take the issue to the UN, reaction in other world capitals seems, at most, to be a yawn.
But there are places where skating raises a yawn, and fans thrill to the anticipation of the Nordic combined or skeleton competitions.
Captain Sandy Yawn will return for another season.
The 4K touch display framed by a white bezel makes it feel more like a smartphone than a yawn-inducing laptop, in a weird but good way.
When Tai Tzu swamped Akane with her bewitching guile and played out a top quality All England final, they made what followed look like a giant yawn.
Yawn - call me when it's Popeye's.
Common combinations with yawn
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sandy yawn 2×
- yawn from 2×
- to yawn 2×
- yawn as 2×
- yawn and 2×