yawn

Object

• chasm: The same crack extended below in the form of a yawning chasm, five or six feet wide.
• gulf: On the Middle East a difference in emphasis has become a yawning gulf.
• gap: There is little short of five years left during which to bridge what is a yawning gap.
• mouth: We entered into the yawning mouth of the cave.
• lot: I also yawn a lot when I have a migraine.
• hole: A yawning hole was all that was to be seen.

Converse of object

• stifle: Mr Blair himself was seen to stifle a yawn.
• give: He walked straight past our viewing deck and gave a huge yawn.
• suppress: Mavis examines Punta Arenas's metal shepherd statue with a barely suppressed yawn.
• have: Pull faces in the loo mirror, have a big yawn or chew a pretend toffee.

Adjective modifier

• huge: He walked straight past our viewing deck and gave a huge yawn.
• big: Pull faces in the loo mirror, have a big yawn or chew a pretend toffee.
• great: Of course he usually slept during my talk, sometimes waking up in the middle to have a great big yawn.

Adjective complement

• open: I will open a blind Came a click, and then a window in the outer case yawned open.

Modifying Another Word

• again: I shouldn't like to have to set and reset it every time, though. ' Viv yawned again.
• still: I also found bagpuss that still yawns when you press his mouth.
• loudly: The rocking motion of the train soon had its passengers yawning loudly.
• then: She yawned but once, then yawned again, She yawned and yawned nine times or ten.
• widely: Because many primary and secondary schools had managed to close the gap, or at least to stop it yawning so widely.
• probably: If you see someone yawning, you will probably yawn.