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 can't remember his reasons, nor Frank Skinner's defence: the print versus "e" non-debate is so yawningly predictable that I zoned out.

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2013

You see little streams of water bubbling up and trickling down every few inches or so along the slide, and 'way below the big pool of water looks yawningly upward.

From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various