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Definition of yawn
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Examples of yawn in a Sentence
Students were yawning in class.
Recent Examples of yawn from the Web
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There's also a yawning gap between people who need help and available health services — the federal government estimated that in 2015 only 20 percent of some 2.4 million Americans with an opioid-use disorder got treatment.
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Trump's own actions have turned a small hole into a yawning abyss: a special counsel's investigation that could run from the Oval Office to Trump Tower and command headlines for the next year or more.
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The damage leaves a person unable to respond to commands, move or respond to stimulus although that person can yawn, sleep on cycle and breath without mechanical assistance.
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The quaint interludes between balls regularly put in play have become yawning gaps of nothingness.
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In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.
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A series of normally dry budget hearings on Capitol Hill this week will draw out the yawning gap between lawmakers and the White House on how much to spend on defense, and where that money to go.
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But this approach, some civil rights activists complain, ignores yawning wealth disparities.
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Brock said, adding that any progress Trump is making on foreign policy is threatened by yawning gaps in staffing at the State Department and elsewhere.
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Origin and Etymology of yawn
Middle English yenen, yanen, from Old English ginian; akin to Old High German ginēn to yawn, Latin hiare, Greek chainein
yawn
Definition of yawn
2 : an opening of the mouth wide while taking a deep breath often as an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom; also : a reaction resembling a yawn a … success at the box office but drew only yawns from critics — Current Biography
3 : 5bore this book is kind of a yawn — Ilene L. Cooper
Examples of yawn in a Sentence
I tried to stifle a yawn.
as neither candidate was willing to make an unequivocal statement about anything, the debate proved to be a complete yawn
Recent Examples of yawn from the Web
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These are 21 abnormal occurrences in our politics that now elicit no more than a yawn from millions of Americans.
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President Trump might be encouraged that Republicans in Congress have reacted with a yawn to these suggestions about Trump possibly firing Mueller.
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But as the White House tried to tell a number of reporters, only to be met by a collective yawn, the New York senator had confused the official statistics.
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Landrieu is one of the few big city mayors to crusade on the poverty and gun culture taking young black lives -- an issue that draws yawns from the GOP in Congress, yoked to the National Rifle Association.
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Electric Literature published an excerpt of Mary Mann’s new book, Yawn: Adventures in Boredom.
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There, the road’s banked sides give generous lift to trees that yawn and stretch with plenty of room to bend.
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Iron Man 3 (2013) The results are only so-so as Stark tussles with PTSD, criminally underused antagonist Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) and yawn-worthy villain Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce).
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'yawn'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of yawn
1602
YAWN Defined for English Language Learners
yawn
playDefinition of yawn for English Language Learners
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: to open your mouth wide while taking in breath usually because you are tired or bored
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of an opening, hole, etc. : to be deep, large, etc.
yawn
Definition of yawn for English Language Learners
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: an act of opening your mouth wide while taking in breath : an act of yawning
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: something that is very boring
YAWN Defined for Kids
Definition of yawn for Students
yawned
;yawning
1 : to open the mouth wide and take a deep breath usually as an involuntary reaction to being tired or bored
2 : to open wide A pit yawned below.
Definition of yawn for Students
: an opening of the mouth while taking a deep breath usually as an involuntary reaction to being tired or bored
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of yawn
: to open the mouth wide and take a deep breath usually as an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom
yawn
Medical Definition of yawn
: an opening of the mouth wide while taking a deep breath often as an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom
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