The word "yawning" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use "yawning" to indicate when someone is sleepy or bored. For example, you could use the sentence: "John was yawning throughout the entire presentation."
The pharmaceutical sector is one in which a yawning gap separates laboratory research on the one hand and profitable products on the other.
After the melancholy party had stayed there for some time, Monsieur Tournevau remarked: 'This isn't very cheerful, is it?' Unable to lose themselves in carnality and frolics, the men must confront reality, which Maupassant presents as a yawning void filled with monotonous echoes.
They won the contested possession count by 19, a yawning gap that you'd think points to future struggles for Adam Simpson's side.
Of course, One Nation Englishness could prove a flag of convenience for a campaign against the yawning disparaties of wealth, the hollowing out of local democratic institutions and the demonisation of the poor.
Last month, appearing on the black interest radio station Colourful, David Cameron agreed that something must be done to address the yawning gap in unemployment rates between white and visible minority jobseekers.
Top picks were people screaming with frustration, tearing their hair out, or simply yawning with boredom.
The gap between our self-image and our reality was yawning ever wider.
5213d755-7791-43af-b824-7da2fde5a382 A yawning gulf has opened in the world of financial diplomacy.
What unifies this evidence-lite package is the yawning gap between pious aspiration (not-so-pious stuff, too) and the realities it is likely to confront, including the forces – English peers as well as Scottish Nats – determined to block it.
Yawning gaps between offer price and true value are hardly unusual in flotations: they're often referred to as "leaving cash on the table" – the cash being for the investment banks managing the sale and their mates at other banks and funds who buy some of the shares.
But Britain's yawning deficit which has added £700 billion ($1.1 trillion), or roughly half of GDP, to the public debt since 2007 was mainly fuelled by a collapse in tax revenues from banking and property sales caused by the crisis.
