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
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
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
And the girls were waiting yawningly, wearily, as the long unoccupied days passed.
From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe
