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Meanings of yawn in English
Synonyms
Examples for "gape"
Examples for "gape"
1
Where I come from the word gawk means to stare, to gape.
2
I simply nodded and did my best not to gape or stare.
3
In order to gape, the cut must pass through the deep skin.
4
Ross couldn't help but gape in confusion as the implications suggested themselves.
5
The police cover Finney's body with a sheet, as the gapers gape.
1
The Wiimote currently measures the pitch, yaw and roll of the controller.
2
Sure; yaw, I, Samuel Albrecht, vill make of you a great actor.
3
This supports the hypothesis that the nodulus mediates yaw-to-vertical or roll cross-coupling.
4
The fluorescents creak and yaw in their casings, then surge to life.
5
And yaw woan't box, I dare say, he will coodgel with yaw.
Usage of yawn in English
1
Despite the yawn, Cincinnatus thought he knew why she asked that question.
2
Unfortunately, the course was as yawn-producing as writing in school had been.
3
A general yawn went the round of the loungers about the fire.
4
What's wrong that a message wouldn't do? Seregil asked with a yawn.
5
I saw you trying to hide a yawn not ten minutes ago.'
6
In most cases these were long-winded, pointless, and yawn-provoking attempts at writing.
7
Then he surprised himself in the middle of another yawn-andhalted abruptly.
8
In the City, the growth figures were a bit of a yawn.
9
The light went on, and the garage door started to yawn open.
10
Five fingers splayed and relaxed and so managed to express a yawn.
11
Mrs. Fotheringham threw herself back in her chair with a little yawn.
12
He stifled another yawn before beginning, and played in a mechanical way.
13
The bleached men began to yawn, the medicated women to slip away.
14
She lowered the magazine and stifled a yawn-butnot a real one.
15
Pashka looked over my shoulder at the belfry and gave a yawn.
16
Enoch rose with a yawn and knocked the ashes from his pipe.
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Yawn through the time
Yawn across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common