Etymology
Origin of yawner
Example Sentences
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At Gamesradar, Neil Smith said the film was "about as scary as Barney the purple dinosaur in what is ultimately a ploddingly predictable, gore-lite yawner".
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023
Typically, precinct meetings were "a yawner," according to Mike Connett, a longtime party member in Horry County, best known for its popular beach towns.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2021
The play would well have been a yawner had not these characters all been generously and sympathetically inhabited.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018
In Jacksonville, Bortles started the second half of a 44-17 blowout loss to Indianapolis, giving fans there a reason to keep watching a yawner of a game.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2014
He ran like a stag to the wood's north corner, Where the hedge was thick and the ditch a yawner, But the scarlet glimpse of Myngs on Turk, Watching the woodside, made him shirk.
From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John
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