as in whine
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
a soccer coach having to endure the endless yammers from parents that their kids weren't getting enough time on the field
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as in to complain
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake
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Examples of yammer in a Sentence
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Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024
But nomination conventions are basically multi-day TV events and TV shows benefit from breaking up a sea of yammering politicians with a few pretty famous faces and, therefore, celebs tend to get trotted out.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
Jordan yammers away on the IG, recording every belch of a thought.
—Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
Carlson yammered on about the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech.
—Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
Maybe that’s because the people the request was directed to were too busy yammering to actually hear it.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
So the easiest course is to yammer on about Hitler while the single female professional down the street takes her own reproductive chocies into her own hands (so to speak).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
Abandoned on my own private Exile Island without a recap in which to yammer on endlessly about trivial matters that are of no real importance whatsoever.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
Only in a minority of cases did one partner want to yammer on whereas the other wished to cut things off.
—Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 1 Mar. 2021
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The calendar is about to flip to August, when the already incessant yammering about Tua and the Dolphins, Canes and Gators, another breakup of the Marlins and blah-de-blah will become even more oppressive.
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024
But nomination conventions are basically multi-day TV events and TV shows benefit from breaking up a sea of yammering politicians with a few pretty famous faces and, therefore, celebs tend to get trotted out.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
Jordan yammers away on the IG, recording every belch of a thought.
—Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
Carlson yammered on about the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech.
—Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
Maybe that’s because the people the request was directed to were too busy yammering to actually hear it.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
So the easiest course is to yammer on about Hitler while the single female professional down the street takes her own reproductive chocies into her own hands (so to speak).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
Abandoned on my own private Exile Island without a recap in which to yammer on endlessly about trivial matters that are of no real importance whatsoever.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
Only in a minority of cases did one partner want to yammer on whereas the other wished to cut things off.
—Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 1 Mar. 2021
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“Yammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yammer. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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