yawner

IPA: jˈɔnɝ

noun

  • A person who yawns.
  • (entertainment, sports, informal) Something unexciting or boring, as a book, sporting event, or performance.
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Examples of "yawner" in Sentences

  • The Basilica is certainly no "yawner" and I take that back.
  • They were important conversations, picked right out of the books ... but ... well, kind of a yawner.
  • Choosing someone from PETA or HSUS as villian of the year would be a yawner -- yeah, what else is new?
  • Buying cokes on your cell fone is coming, but it is a yawner, and has nothing to do with rural broadband.
  • Saying a NFL division match-up with playoff implications is a yawner is a pretty big stretch, especially considering how physical the Giants and Eagles are.
  • First there was a dreary 0-0 tie versus Uruguay the kind of yawner that if you had showed it to a soccer-ambivalent American, hoping to get them hooked on the Beautiful Game, they'd have called the police on you.
  • In Geronimo v. Obama the descendants of Geronimo have filed suit, demanding that the Yale Skull and Bones society return to them the skull of Go-lah-ka-yey (the yawner) who died of pneumonia in 1909 while still a prisoner in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
  • Now at the top of the local politics food chain, Adams 'weaknesses are revealed, and the revelation is a yawner: Adams is, in fact, a mediocre leader who's finding out that the smarmy platitudes are no longer sufficient, and cannot replace leadership, real ethics, and courageous judgement.

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