Etymology
Origin of yawner
Example Sentences
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To most Americans, the whole thing will be a yawner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
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
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 John Masefield
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