| The release goes on to list a number of chest-thumping accomplishments guaranteed to induce yawns among anyone who knows better. |
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| With many sleepy grunts and yawns, the soldiers dressed, ate a hurried meal, then slowly formed ranks. |
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| And all the while people suffer, the abyss between rich and poor yawns, and exploitation continues as the bitterest fact of everyday life. |
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| Interviewees have thus been treated to loftily dismissive asides, barely stifled yawns and muffled harrumphs. |
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| He yawns, covering his mouth, and hears the sound of the television playing somewhere in the house. |
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| I tried not to show my boredom, but my yawns were coming quicker and quicker. |
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| I like to watch late night TV and judge my bedtime by the force of gravity and the frequency of my yawns. |
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| At parties, it was the last thing I wanted to mention, since it was certain to bring yawns and glares of boredom from beer-holding peers. |
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| It's a sad day when 90 minutes of football is all about stifling the yawns. |
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| It's been a couple of weeks since I bought this one, and I'm sure mentioning it will have most people stifling yawns, but that's just tough! |
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| Hugh Bradley was in the pool recently and said the two boys had yawns as wide as a hippopotamus' mouth. |
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| But we are tired, and Mum mistakes our tiredness and stifled yawns for boredom. |
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| And, since the good jokes don't come until the final third, a lot of yawns will have to be stifled. |
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| Sadie's heavy eyelids and swallow-the-earth yawns were entirely down to yet another interminable boredom barrage from Mr Brown. |
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| I spent this period of instruction trying to stifle yawns and resisting saying how old-hat this all seemed. |
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| Now, with a mind that is probably as sharp as it ever was, the only movements she can make are blinks and small yawns. |
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| Carl yawns cavernously, making sure everyone within a ten foot radius catches a glimpse of his tonsils. |
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| It was an era when politics had passion and party political conventions could be dramatic, world-changing events rather than media-manipulated yawns. |
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| She is the most perfect creation in the world, the most innocent bundle of coos and yawns and mumbles, and my heart breaks every time she focuses on my face. |
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| The transnational morality set can barely stifle their yawns. |
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| I don't even try to stifle my yawns while at the in-laws house. |
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| And in anywhere but Britain an earnest report on this very worthy subject would induce yawns. |
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| While the gender gap in primary school attendance is shrinking globally, in many parts of the world it still yawns wide. |
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| At the moment of the holy mass, instead of praying, I gave yawns out of boredom. |
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| The leader might also make up something embarrassing for the forfeiter to do such as yawn until someone else yawns or recite a silly tongue twister perfectly. |
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| Maxine was keeping up a cheerful banter all the way to my rooms, but by then I was too tired to reply in more than monosyllables between the yawns. |
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| It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians. |
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| A jacket, adorned with braided gold epaulets at the shoulders, yawns open, exposing a wide expanse of skin down her chest. |
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| Tory MPs leave their wives and set up home with a man, and the nation yawns. |
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| After I pass him a few kernels, he yawns and walks across me to put a sleepy head in my husband's lap. |
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| An abyss yawns between the emotional reality of those days and the historical truth as we know it now. |
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| So tonight we all get to sit through a really long and boring event, stifling yawns and clapping dutifully as our bums go numb on hard wooden chairs. |
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| Lecture them on the legalities, and you will be met with yawns. |
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| The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck. |
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| Relatives were most likely to spark off yawns in each other, followed by friends, acquaintances and lastly strangers. |
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| The contagiousness of yawns suggests there may be a deeper social context for pandiculation as well. |
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| The Kastorskys bought a dacha not far from the sea, on the Chenryavsky Mount, which was smothered with apricot and peach orchards, behind which yawns a gorge of vertiginous depth with a seething river at the bottom. |
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| The gap between the politically-correct political class and many of their voters still yawns, however raucous and vibrant the demonstrations on the streets. |
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| As the wealth gap yawns, India risks social strife. |
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| With any luck there will be a few yawns and stretches as the importance and judgments separate from the attention particle, and it returns to its neutral, flowing energy form. |
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