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adoze
[ uh-dohz ]
/ əˈdoʊz /
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adverb, adjective
dozing; napping: a cat adoze by the fireside.
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How to use adoze in a sentence
Cricket was about the one thing he really cared for; as a chemistry specialist he spent most of his day adoze in the laboratory.
The Loom of Youth|Alec WaughI again fell adoze for half an hour, and was awakened by my brother suddenly coming in and saying: Ah!
Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science|Hudson TuttleSo, hitching my chair up to the oaken table, I made a pillow of my fettered wrists and presently fell adoze.
The Master of Appleby|Francis LyndeWasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream?
The Turn of the Screw|Henry James