Yawning in a sentence as a noun

If that's not the yawning abyss of a long-term tech support ****, I don't know what is.

" I tend to have a yawning disinterest in money.

It just seems like they'd prefer to burn off a story that is literally about yawning on a slow news day.

Physically I was fine, no yawning or anything, but mentally I felt like I hadn't slept.

Yawning in a sentence as an adjective

The Daily Show addressed the yawning gap between the credibility of the US and international editions of Time in the past week or so.

Intel simply needs to face facts: The chasm between hardcore gamers and the general computer-buying public is so wide and yawning it may as well be on another planet.

[21][22] Wright himself equivocated about whether he thought Roark was based on him, sometimes implying that he was, at other times denying it.[23] Wright biographer Ada Louise Huxtable described the "yawning gap" between Wright's philosophy and Rand's, and quoted him declaring, "I deny the paternity and refuse to marry the mother.

Yawning definitions

noun

an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy"

See also: yawn oscitance oscitancy

adjective

gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something; "the yawning mine shaft"; "a yawning abyss"

adjective

with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness; "a yawning congregation"

adjective

showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation"

See also: drowsy oscitant