yawn
verb (used without object)
to open the mouth somewhat involuntarily with a prolonged, deep inhalation and sighing or heavy exhalation, as from drowsiness or boredom.
Example Sentences
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The new movie, directed by Joachim Rønning from a script by Linda Woolverton, Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, is yawningly dutiful in some respects and breathtakingly deranged in others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2019
Everyone is speaking in English which, with the tranquillity, stippled sunlight and exuberant flora, paints a picture so pretty and familiar that you brace for tea and a yawningly polite meander down biopic lane.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2018
Ben Arnold The final episode of what has ultimately proven to be a good–looking but at times yawningly empty drama.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2013
I'm afraid this was the high point in a farrago of leaden jokes, ill-observed "observational" riffing and a yawningly familiar cast of teen idlers, old fools and Shameless-inspired lowlife.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2011
Squire Erliston, in after-dinner mood, sat in his arm-chair; Louis lay idly on a lounge at a little distance, and Gipsy sat by the window, yawningly turning over a volume of prints.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
