1078 examples of yawned in sentences

The rising sun, darting an inquisitive beam 'twixt a leafy opening, fell upon Beltane's wide, slow-heaving breast; crept upwards to his chin, his cheek, and finally strove to peep beneath his slumberous, close-shut lids; whereat Beltane stirred, yawned, threw wide and stretched his mighty arms, and thereafter, blinking drowsily, sat up, his golden hair be-tousled, and stared sleepily about him.

"Yes." De Chauxville rose, stretched himself and yawned.

She held a magazine in her hand, and yawned as she turned its pages.

" The old man yawned sleepily, and was easily persuaded to go to bed.

" The Secretary yawned sleepily.

But when the car stopped on the siding, pa took off his coat and hat and yawned, and said he guessed he would turn in, and she let him go to his berth, and he got out on the platform, and just then the second section of our train came along, and stopped for water, and pa crawled into an animal car and laid down in the straw with the sacred cow.

Nevertheless Duchemin was grateful, and with the young girl as guide for the nth time sailed with d'Artagnan to Newcastle and rode with him toward Belle Isle, with him frustrated the machinations of overweening Aramis and yawned over the insufferable virtues of that most precious prig of all Romance, Raoul, Vicomte de Bragelonne.

A liveried footmanbeyond a doubt he who admitted the mistress of the houseentered, carrying an electric candle, yawned with a superstitious hand before his mouth and, looking to neither right nor left, turned away from Lanyard and trudged wearily back to the household offices.

She yawned delicately.

Privately Lanyard yawned.

The station master yawned drowsily.

Though one hundred years before liberty was actually obtained, the sleeping goddess seemed to have opened her eyes on that occasion and yawned, though she closed them the next moment for a sleep of a century longer.

But they all yawned.

He glanced up at the box, where his substitute lolled and yawned and smiled.

There he stood, suspended over an abyss, smoking a cigarette, bravely forcing himself to an attitude of serene insouciance, while the basement yawned for him!

But these filial attentions over, if he yawned with reliefwhy, he never did so in her presence, and would have been unable to understand that Lady Mary saw him yawning, in her mind's eye, as plainly as though he had indulged this bad habit under her very nose.

Then, when Dick paused to rest and did nothing, Crusoe looked mild for a moment, and yawned vociferously.

he yawned again, "I guess I've had enough sleep; wait a minute, I'll go with you."

Standing quietly for a while beside a good-tempered-looking man, who was evidently an out-of-work cab-driver, he yawned two or three times, and said at last: "How long shall we have to wait, do you think?" "Depends on cable," said the cab-driver.

"All alone?" "All alone, Ditson," yawned Frank.

The dignity of his breed forbade man-handling, and at a safe distance he stretched himself nervously and yawned.

"I'll bet," he declared loyally, "your 'one good turn' was a better one!" Jimmie yawned, and then laughed scornfully.

Having duly and silently weighed these facts for a few minutes, they simultaneously, and as if by a common impulse, yawned, and retired to bed.

He did not take to study,yawned over books, and cut out moulds for running anchors when he should have been thinking of his columns of words in four syllables.

The man with the geometrical pattern of scars on his face and chest suddenly sat bolt upright like a released spring, yawned, looked at the sky and the limp sail, and then at Moussa Isa.

1078 examples of  yawned  in sentences