Look bored

Usage examples of yawn.

Seregil said with a yawn as he and Alec settled down for the night in the broad guest chamber bed.

By the time Astasia reached the musical squirrel and the bumblebee, Karila was yawning, and long before the swan princess made her appearance, the little girl had fallen asleep.

Then the first figure closed the door again silently, and came and spoke softly up to the Bailly, who yawned in his hand, sat back in his chair, and drummed his fingers upon the arm.

The cat, Peter, yawned and stretched and then began to yowl in protest, as the bandbox with the air holes was produced.

I had had no sleep the night before I felt tired and began to yawn, which was not flattering for the lady.

At the same time, too, Sallust betokened by a long yawn the evidence of existence.

She failed by five, and was sentenced to a birthday birching which Maude herself applied whilst Alice was, still blind folded, undressed down to camisole and elegant black silk hose with purple rosette garters and tied with her arms in cross and her thighs widely yawned apart in the middle of the room, cords fixing to wrists and ankles being fixed at their other ends in turn to hooks set into the cellar wall.

I groaned and yawned a bit without overdoing it then opened a bleary eye.

He was very aware that he was pouring booze into himself to fill a yawning psychological emptiness.

As he approached, that door opened and a yawning man stepped out, shuffled a short distance away from the tower, and emptied a chamber pot into a ditch or cesspit somewhere in the tall grass.

Some of the trainees gave up and hauled their cots back into the bays, but Marty yawned and stretched out more fully on her cot.

He roused him without bitterness, and sent the yawning coxswain across the long gray gangplank that spanned the gulf of the dry dock, to buy coffee and doughnuts.

He put a sympathetic hand on her shoulder and squeezed past in the narrow space of the rear entry, lightly kissed her, and took her with him through the kitchen to the living room, where she stood embarrassed in the midst of a yawn while he darted forward and drew down on a cord which advanced dark curtains across the bow window.

He yawned most of the journey to Donnybrook where he nicked a red light at fifty-five, slowed a little for the bend and sped up again along Morehampton Road.

A winding staircase disappeared up a landing at left, and a hallway was at left also, with the dining room visible through one arched doorless doorway, in the facing wall, and, to the right, a living room yawned through another archway.