Read full poem →Feet half-dancing in a kitchen.
Even the clocks half-yawn the hours
And the farmers make half-answers.
Dictionary Entry
The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “yawn”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves;
But not the riches there that lie
Read full poem →That gave me fever, and the spleen!
Adieu that stage which makes us yawn, Sirs,
Adieu his Excellency's dancers![21]
Read full poem →Yet lift that drowsy head awhile
And yawn propitiously a smile;
In drizzly rains poppean dews 15
Read full poem →Given to squalor, rags and disorder.
I nap and amble and yawn and look,
Write fool-thoughts in my grubby book,
Read full poem →He crawled into that pleasant nook.
Young Red-head stretched himself to yawn
And murmured, 'May God curse the night