Examples of yawning in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York may be at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but a more yawning gap between figures in the party has existed before. — John Dickerson, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022 The tunnels, some a yawning 33 feet in diameter and running up to 300 feet below city streets, stretch 109 miles and collectively hold 2.3 billion gallons of water. — New York Times, 17 May 2020 In the interim, there was a yawning increase in American’s appetite for streaming entertainment at home. — Chris Wilson, Time, 9 June 2021 There were other Kirby efforts over the years that sold more poorly or were met with more critical derision, but none had such a yawning and humiliating gap between ambition and reality. — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021 First the city manager, then the police chief, departed amid withering criticism and a yawning budget deficit. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2020 The yawning atrium at the University of Florida Health Jacksonville hospital is being turned into a vaccination site. — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020 Her third-quarter performance nearly closed what had been a yawning fundraising gap. — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2020 The title a season ago came by a mountainous and laughably easy 21 games over the Diamondbacks, the most yawning gap in all of baseball. — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020 See More

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