Yawning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for YAWNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• be wide open
• involuntarily open one's mouth wide and inhale deeply due to tiredness or boredom
NOUN:
• the act of yawning
• a thing that is considered boring or tedious
• an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom
• a reflex act of opening one's mouth wide and inhaling deeply due to tiredness or boredom
ADJECTIVE:
• gaping
• gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something
• with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness
• showing lack of attention or boredom
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation of air

Words related to YAWNING

yawn10 yawned13 yawningly19 yawns11

Words that contain YAWNING

yawnings15 yawningly19

How to use YAWNING in a sentence

• Thus he was in a very bad humor, puffing and yawning and half asleep.
• In the roof was a yawning gap, from which a great owl flapped as they drew closer.
• Then he saw a deep gulch yawning below him, and caught the flutter of a handkerchief on the far side.
• She sprang even as Alcatraz whirled for flight, and in whirling he saw that there was no escape from the leap of this monster with the yawning teeth.
• It had been placed there about five days before Christmas, and a huge bear, who had the nightmare I suppose, came yawning out of his cave and down the mountain-side.
• Storm-tossed and driven out of their reckoning, they turned for refuge one April day into a yawning break in the coast-line that we now call Chesapeake Bay.
• He studied intently the gray face, missed its habitual smile and for really the first time his gaze rested upon the yawning wound in the temple.
• An emissary threw some small, heavy object into the yawning hole.
• With a crash the trap was sprung, with the pit yawning beneath it.
• It was decaying away, yawning with its open mouth as if asking for its honored tenement.
• She led him back upon the plateau, and, urging him both with whip and voice, she started him again toward the yawning chasm.
• They were quickly at the wall, and had no difficulty in learning that, just as they had guessed, the yawning hole was there.
• The Confederate guns were trained on this yawning pit whose edges now bristled with flaming muskets.
• Palliser was yawning, and she began to understand how much he had given up in order that his wife might be secure.
• Nor could I without yawning listen to more than a few lines of Mr.
• The Robinsons, resigned to defeat, ascended to the hall above, with the gun yawning just at the rear.
• In many cases the road was a mere track winding along the side of these mountains, with precipices yawning below.
• As she approached, it widened, grew higher, until she round herself peering into the yawning mouth of a sea cavern fifty feet wide and half that in height.
• He had a momentary impression of a great round mouth yawning to swallow him up.
• He got up with a great show of stretching and yawning and lounged into the passage.
• There the wire, bending at a right angle, entered the yawning gulf.
• A hollow sound was heard from within the dark, yawning cavern, and a thick vapour rolled out into the cold air.
• Suquet over from America to rescue me from the jaws of death which were yawning to swallow me up.
• The waters of these streams are full of fish and immense turtles, and everywhere were to be seen multitudes of crocodiles, drinking in the sun with huge yawning mouths.
• They lengthened more, and more, till the starry, shimmering form was swaying above a yawning abyss.
• But, indeed, she did owe us an apology for her yawning fit affected us all like a virulent epidemic.
• Then, shading a very modern flash-light with a fold of his robe, he showed me one of the square flags lifted, and a black hole yawning in the floor.
• She did not care to look out of the window, but sat leaning back in her most comfortable armchair, yawning in front of the glass.
• The voice belonged to a young woman sitting up in bed and coolly covering him with the yawning muzzle of a peculiarly poisonous-looking automatic pistol.

Similar words containing YAWN without suffix ing

yawn10 yawns11 yawny14 yawned13 yawner12 yawners13 yawnier13 yawniest14 yawnings15 yawnsome16 yawningly19

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