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
This one might not have been quite as ugly as the Colts-Broncos yawner a week earlier that had famed play-by-play announcer Al Michaels launching zingers and creating a buzz on social media.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2022
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
If he attempts to take some of our big banked bullfinches in his stride, with a yawner on each side, will get into grief.'
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith
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