Sentence examples for yan from inspiring English sources

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yan

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The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.

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Every night at that point, give or take 10 minutes, she'd give a noisy yawn and trot happily upstairs.

True that, if by "yawn" you mean "gaping chasm into which they have thrown dozens of stories".

Some greeted the publication of the batch of letters with a shrug – and even a yawn, suggesting that they were tedious.

The ancillary "cover-up" is, of course, the "collective yawn" of the MSM in response to Benghazi (or, as Salon's Alex Pareene delightfully distinguishes the right-wing frenzy from the actual events that occurred, #BENGHAZI).

Make mine a giant pint of yawn.

Worthy and stately, "The Fall of the Roman Empire" was a yawn, while "Demetrius and the Gladiators" was a hoot.In "Gladiator", Mr Scott keeps both balls in the air at once.

The different population groups are ghettoised; wealth gaps yawn.

Goldman Sachs reckons that servicing foreign-held Treasury, agency and corporate bonds will cost America up to 0.5 percentage points of growth in the coming years.In this section Hank yanked Wide gap, wide yawn The central bank takes stock China Corruption Bank Putting things in order ReprintsMr Bernanke's opinion was bolder.

The great collective yawn is also one of contentment.

The gap between father and son, darkness and light, winter and spring, did not always yawn so wide.

A former parliamentary speaker now in the Moin camp was assaulted by conservative zealots as he tried to address a reformists' rally in Qom.The campaign had threatened to be a pointless yawn when Mr Moin was disqualified from standing by a conservative watchdog body.

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