Yawning in example sentence

The majority of Chinese are more interested in bread-and-butter issues than they are in this game of musical chairs at the top, particularly whether Hu and Wen can fulfil their promise of narrowing the yawning gap between rich and poor, city and countryside, and coast and hinterland.

More example sentences with word yawning

You would think this wouldn't be too hard, that we would simply have the ability to take this fundamental information that we're learning about how it is that basic biology teaches us about the causes of disease and build a bridge across this yawning gap between what we've learned about basic science and its application, a bridge that would look maybe something like this, where you'd have to put together a nice shiny way to get from one side to the other.

This phenomenon is known as contagious yawning.

Our first physiological hypothesis states that contagious yawning is triggered by a specific stimulus, an initial yawn.

Scientists discovered this empathetic response to yawning while testing the first hypothesis we mentioned, fixed action pattern.

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