Example Sentences

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She struggles to fall asleep, her father said, and often asks him to stay by her side while she dozes off.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Footage released on Tuesday shows police officers conferring on how to arrest the suspect as he apparently dozes in a car with a running engine.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023

Food and sleep will be put aside, except when someone dozes off in a seat or on a colleague’s shoulder.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Upset, Arthur dozes off in the library and has a nightmare about Mrs. MacGrady’s workload — then awakens to find the civil rights leader sitting next to him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2020

As he dozes, it seems to him a room one can fall asleep in quite easily, a comfortable room, warm, and nearly dark now.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston