Yawning in example sentence

Well, I was born in Belfast in 1960 and lived there till 1982, and I can tell you that when you were yawning at the news about people being murdered, tortured, kidnapped, beaten, burned out of their homes, intimidated and imprisoned without trial, the people I lived among were going through it.

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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