Crossword-Solution: YAWNING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Yawning | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Yawn |
We have 21 clues for the answer “YAWNING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something | 1 answer |
| Showing tiredness | 1 answer |
| Wide-mouthed act of tiredness | 1 answer |
| Indication of fatigue or boredom. | 1 answer |
| In need of coffee, maybe | 1 answer |
| STRETCHING movement of the jaws and sometimes also of limbs | 2 answers |
| CARBON dioxide content of the blood, physiological reaction to high | 2 answers |
| chasmal | 5 answers |
| Open wide | 7 answers |
| cavernous | 8 answers |
| Wide open | 8 answers |
| gaping | 14 answers |
| Bottomless | 19 answers |
| Nodding | 24 answers |
| Abysmal | 31 answers |
| Agape | 31 answers |
| drowsy | 33 answers |
| Tired | 49 answers |
| Boredom | 59 answers |
| Gap | 65 answers |
| Exhausted | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with YAWNING (5)
And Osseo, when he saw it, Gave a shout, a cry of anguish, Leaped into its yawning cavern, At one end went in an old man, Wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly; From the other came a young man, Tall and straight and strong and handsome.
Nine dayes they fell; confounded _Chaos_ roard, And felt tenfold confusion in thir fall Through his wilde Anarchie, so huge a rout Incumberd him with ruin: Hell at last Yawning receavd them whole, and on them clos’d, Hell thir fit habitation fraught with fire Unquenchable, the house of woe and paine.
Then we topped the crest of the mountain and below us I saw yawning the mouth of a huge circular well, the bottom of which was lost in inky blackness.
When we reached the edge of the pit I saw that it was very deep, and presently I realized I was soon to judge just how far it extended below the surface of the court, for he who held the rope passed it about my body in such a way that it could be released from above at any time; and then, as all the warriors grasped it, he pushed me forward, and I fell into the yawning abyss.
Where before there had been naught but deserted pavements and scarlet swards, yawning windows and tenantless doors, now swarmed a countless multitude of happy, laughing people.
Quotes with YAWNING (3)
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning aby…
I like the disaster of the night sky, stars spilling this way and that as if they were upturned from a glass. I like the way good madness feels. I like the way laughter always spills. That's the word for it. It never just comes, it spills. I like the word 'again'. Again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. I like the quiet sound a coffee cup makes when it's set down on a wooden table. So hushed. So inviting. Like morning light yawning through…
Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1963–2018).