Example Sentences

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Most senators, even Republicans, sat at their desks throughout the afternoon session, as the rules stipulate, and not as many of them were yawning or standing to stretch as during the previous long nights.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2020

In 2010, Guarnieri sold less than 50, telling the site Pinball News that “there was no product left for him to sell”—that his customers were yawning at Stern’s sparsely adorned, simplistic games.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2013

During the war, she felt guilty for having such an interesting job "while my girlfriends were yawning their heads off on night duty in the RAF operation rooms, or getting chilblains on ack ack sites".

From The Guardian • May 15, 2010

We were yawning about that beautiful but godawful country, and how come most of it stood on end.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her fellow Chasers, Katie Bell and Angelina Johnson, were yawning side by side opposite them.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling