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yawning

/yaw-ning/US // ˈyɔ nɪŋ //

打哈欠,打呵欠,哈欠连天,打哈欠的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being or standing wide open; gaping: the yawning mouth of a cave.
    • : indicating by yawns one's weariness or indifference: The lecturer was oblivious to his yawning audience.

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Examples

  • In lions, contagious yawning might be important for maintaining social cohesion, Palagi says.

  • I think as time continues, we’ll find that the contagious yawning is more common among some of these highly social species.

  • Closing the wage gap and addressing yawning economic inequality in America would help people of all races.

  • Allergies are a common culprit behind daily yawning sessions for the 50 million Americans who suffer from them.

  • “While inhaling, imagine that your throat is opening as if you were yawning,” says Anzovino.

  • The insane, obscene, yawning difference between the pay of workers and bosses has long been used as a cudgel by labor groups.

  • When Hebron makes it to the media the yawning gap between Hebron and Tel Aviv is bridged for a minute or two.

  • He aimed at the yawning hippopotamus and fired, hitting it on the skull, but at such an angle that the ball glanced off.

  • On one hand is the yawning gulf of social catastrophe represented by socialism.

  • He stood up bravely and marched along, yawning, while his big brother and sister almost swung him between them.

  • The path leading to it is over a small ledge of rock, skirted on each side by a yawning abyss.

  • It seemed to him as though he were standing on a precipice, while beneath him were yawning depths of darkness.