Yawning is an English word with synonyms like open or reflex. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Yawning meaning
present participle and gerund of yawn
Synonyms of Yawning
Using Yawning
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of yawn
- Useful related words include: open, unconditioned reflex, inborn reflex, innate reflex.
- In the example corpus, yawning often appears in combinations such as: the yawning, yawning gap, yawning chasm.
Context around Yawning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yawning
- In this selection, "yawning" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, actually, person, necessarily, gap, chasm and motion stand out and add context to how "yawning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include affordability a yawning gap between and also suggests yawning has a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yawning" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yawning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Research also suggests yawning has a brain-cooling function. (9 words)
Wincanton has been weighed down for years by a yawning pension deficit. (12 words)
This is when John Tory’s election as mayor initiated a yawning stretch of undeniable decline. (16 words)
After the Chiefs went three-and-out to start the second half, Burrow led the Bengals downfield, bolting through a yawning hole in the defense for a third-down conversion — before hitting Higgins from 27 yards out to knot the game 13-all. (43 words)
I watched this video from the Sandford Police Twitter account that shows a cyclist who decided to ignore lowered safety arms and beat a moving drawbridge, only to plunge into the yawning gap left by the rising road. (38 words)
Meanwhile, the Celtics cruised — aside from a few bumps and scratches — for the better part of their year, and now are enjoying the fruits of their labor and yawning while the Heat battle for a legitimate playoff position. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The bassoon embouchure is made by putting one's lips together as if one were whistling and then dropping the jaw down as in a yawning motion (without actually yawning or opening the mouth).
After the Chiefs went three-and-out to start the second half, Burrow led the Bengals downfield, bolting through a yawning hole in the defense for a third-down conversion — before hitting Higgins from 27 yards out to knot the game 13-all.
But the new reality for the men’s pair will be closing down a yawning gap of nearly 17 seconds in the next 10 months or so.
David de Gea's Man Utd contract expires later this week, and he got fans talking by posting a yawning emoji on social media.
Erling Snær, 20, was collecting the last of his things with his younger sister grabbing a huge bunny rabbit from their living room that now sinks downwards into the yawning chasm.
It is said that if you see another person yawning, you are six times more likely to yawn as well.
It’s yet another example of the yawning chasm between the NDP and the PCs with respect to Jewish voters, where the parties couldn’t be more different.
I watched this video from the Sandford Police Twitter account that shows a cyclist who decided to ignore lowered safety arms and beat a moving drawbridge, only to plunge into the yawning gap left by the rising road.
Meanwhile, the Celtics cruised — aside from a few bumps and scratches — for the better part of their year, and now are enjoying the fruits of their labor and yawning while the Heat battle for a legitimate playoff position.
Tabitha claimed a brace in the 47th minute when she dribbled past Dijon goalkeeper to coolly slot the ball in a yawning net to make it 3-0.
Tales Of The Yawning Portal includes one fantastic rumor of a haunted temple that also seems to be alive.
The firm also released a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti HOF, so the yawning gap in the HOF family has now been filled for people who want to push the Ada Lovelace AD103 GPU to its limits.
This is when John Tory’s election as mayor initiated a yawning stretch of undeniable decline.
Wincanton has been weighed down for years by a yawning pension deficit.
Apart from tensions with China, the election hinged on domestic issues, such as a slowed economy, housing affordability, a yawning gap between rich and poor and unemployment.
As journalists at the time noted, the actual policy differences between the two candidates weren’t necessarily yawning.
Dogs watching the arguments also showed more stress-related behaviours such as crouching, ears down, breathing rapidly through their opened mouth, tail down or yawning.
Fury came in at a career-high 281lb at yesterday’s weigh-in at the Kingdom Arena while Usyk tipped the scales at 226lb, making for a yawning 55lb discrepancy that will be slightly reduced in the ring.
In the video, Shakib can be seen yawning on stage, in what looks like an election campaign.
Research also suggests yawning has a brain-cooling function.
Common combinations with yawning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the yawning 15×
- yawning gap 12×
- yawning chasm 3×
- and yawning 3×
- yawning and 3×
- in yawning 2×
- yawning or 2×
- yawning you 2×
- yawning portal 2×
- or yawning 2×