How to Use yawner in a Sentence

yawner

noun

• The show was a real yawner.
• The Browns can make this one a yawner, so keep an eye on the scoreboard.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2020
• These weren't yawners ... down the middle, on the green, two‑putt and one‑hand all your second putts in the hole.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
• The NFC South is such a yawner and this game will align with that notion.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 May 2022
• Alan Taylor’s return to Game of Thrones was hardly a yawner.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2017
• The Head and the Heart, meanwhile, didn't do itself any favors by opening with a string of mid-tempo yawners.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
• The league wanted to spice of the All-Star Game after a series of yawners for their midseason classic, played with no intensity or defense.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• This proposal is basically a yawner; no one should get exercised about it one way or the other.
  — Barry Latzer, National Review, 17 Feb. 2020
• Baker Mayfield threw three interceptions, and Odell Beckham’s debut was a yawner, with seven catches for 71 yards and no touchdowns.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• For many reasons, the March 13 congressional special election in southwest Pennsylvania should be a yawner.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Mar. 2018
• The famed play-by-play announcer had social media buzzing during last Thursday’s Colts-Broncos yawner that featured seven field goals, a dozen punts, 25 third down stops, four interceptions and six fumbles — with none recovered by the defense.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 13 Oct. 2022
• Their defense was a yawner, their rebounding indifferent.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018

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