doze off

1. Fall into a light sleep, as in Watching the ballet always made her doze off. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

When she did doze off, Dame Jacqueline said she wanted to sleep too but used the short window available to write.

From BBC

These six podcasts offer respites for your brain, delivering tales that are diverting enough to keep you focused, but uneventful enough that you can doze off.

From New York Times

She was home at 9 p.m. and quickly dozed off, but within hours, she woke her mother up.

From Salon

In that small snapshot, about 90 minutes or so, in a busy waiting room filled with patients listening out for their names to be called, in wheelchairs, in pain, dozing off.

From BBC

But it wasn’t until closing statements, when many voters may have been dozing off, that she discussed her history as a prosecutor in California.

From Los Angeles Times