Example Sentences

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Newspapers have felt it for decades, part of a system whose fractures have yawned into complete breaks.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2025

Jokic, a perma-placid glaze resting on his face, could not have yawned out a duller answer about the MVP race if he tried.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

Some title droughts for host countries have yawned across decades, and here’s the drought ranking of the moment:

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2022

In Stratford-on-Avon, I have guffawed at Bottom’s midsummer-night translation into an ass; in Atlanta, I have yawned over “Julius Caesar’s” Cinna the Poet portrayed as a Vietnam veteran.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021

They might even have yawned if they only heard you yawn, because yawning is also aurally contagious: if you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they’ll yawn too.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell