yawning

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With the credit market frozen and capitalization gaps a-yawning, the taxpayer needed to feed the beast in order to save it, and save all the car loans, home loans, business start-up loans, and students loans that would travel in it's wake.

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  1. adjective Gaping open; cavernous: a yawning abyss.

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  • Yawning can even be so contagious that simply by reading about yawning, a person will yawn!
  • With the credit market frozen and capitalization gaps a-yawning, the taxpayer needed to feed the beast in order to save it, and save all the car loans, home loans, business start-up loans, and students loans that would travel in it's wake. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • In addition to yawning, the dogs showed similar reactions to human yawns. —  Impact Lab
  • Please buy my book. yawning is a distinctly canadian act, like saying ey, and aboot. —  ESPN Feed: stuart scott
  • Though deep, it is very narrow in places, and might almost be described as a yawning crack in the earth, filled with water to within ten feet of the top A little way up stream is a spot fordable for horses, and, of course, fordable also for a cycler; but the prevailing mud and the chilliness of the morning combine to influence me to try another plan. —  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
 

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yawning:   yawn ·  yawns
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