‘Not only did you have the filthy rich people winning it but the race was a yawner.’
‘By contrast, the current slowdown in the U.S. economy might rank as a bit of a yawner.’
‘They're a corporate services firm, which in the grand scheme of things is a real yawner.’
‘Will this game end up being another in a continual line of Monday-night yawners?’
‘As Dinosaur proved, slow-moving animals trying to get to safe land is a yawner, no matter who voices the animals.’
‘It's fun and easy to like or even call ‘great,’ but it could just as easily be a yawner if you caught it on the wrong day.’
‘Now, the G-8 summit in years past, critics would say, was a bit of a yawner.’
‘The offense has been an absolute yawner through two games.’
‘There is plenty of time for our patented 10-point-plan yawner of a stump speech as we move into the next election cycle.’
‘Tracks with yawners like Mack 10, Insane Clown Posse and E40 do nothing to help the album's inevitable downward slide.’
‘What I assumed was a horror thriller quickly became a yawner with endless debates about opening a slimy, frozen alien pod, or not opening a slimy, frozen alien pod.’
‘What may sound like a routine yawner is really a meeting at which nothing less than the future of Europe will be decided - and especially Germany's role in that future.’
‘A second commentary by producer David Foster, however, is a yawner - superfluous, dreary, dull, and offering nothing of interest.’
‘Same with Squeeze, for that matter; they too sailed from the port of Melody and wandered the Sargasso bogs for years, turning out hours of mid-tempo yawners.’
‘It started off as the usual sort of Junior High yawner: police interrupting the Holston Middle School's curriculum to talk about the dangers of drunk driving.’
‘‘What a yawner,’ the guard's eyes were slightly mesmerized by the bright, gray light emanating from the television screens.’
‘But if the headline event was a bit of a yawner, it showed that the global powers-that-be are groping toward better understanding of the developing nations and their concerns about the dangers of globalization.’
‘‘East Coast Angel’ is a yawner, but at least the whole record doesn't fall into the ‘Oh God, is this another REALLY slow song with a piano?’’
‘For many years, ‘boring, boring’ Arsenal were pleased with squeaking out 1-0 yawners over their more adventurous, stylish rivals.’
‘‘The Hives have been playing the same songs for about two and a half centuries! ‘jokes Swedish rocker Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist before launching into a set of brand new garage yawners.’
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