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present participle and gerund of yawn examples
countable and uncountable, plural yawnings
The action of the verb yawn. quotations examples
Her vivacity appeared as graceful as it was buoyant; her gay spirit seemed the musical overflowings of youth and happiness; her eye and cheek brightened together; and her sweet glad laugh was as catching as yawning.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 189
comparative more yawning, superlative most yawning
That yawns or yawn. examples
(figuratively) Wide open. quotations examples
That experience really taught me something. That deep down inside, I am broken, and that I'm using work to plaster over some yawning gap within myself.
2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, page 122
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, page 1